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Celerity

(54,409 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 08:38 PM Oct 2020

The Best Beer in America Is Available at Your Grocery Store

Bell's Two Hearted Ale was voted the best beer in America, and you can buy it practically everywhere.

https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/drinks/a34480270/american-home-brewers-associate-best-beer-america-bells-two-hearted-2020/



Bell's Brewery has done it again. For the fourth consecutive year, readers of Zymurgy magazine, a publication from the American Homebrewers Association, voted Bell's Two Hearted Ale as the best beer in America.

For those not in the know, the beer community loves Bell's Two Hearted Ale. On Beer Advocate, the beer has an average 95 out of 100 rating based on nearly 4,000 reviews. The 7 percent ABV India pale ale is brewed with 100 percent Centennial hops, which gives the beer its signature bitter citrus bite. The IBUs are offset by the beer's bready maltiness, and its house yeast gives the beer its fruitiness. Two Hearted is a masterclass in harmoniously combing yeasts, hops and malts to create a highly drinkable IPA that won't weigh you down with its bitterness or juiciness.

Unlike Zymurgy readers' pick for second-best beer, Russian River's Pliny the Elder, Two Hearted is available almost everywhere nationwide from suburban grocery stores to New York City bodegas. You can check out the top 10 picks for best beer and breweries online, and subscribe to Zymurgy to see the full results in its November/December 2020 issues.

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LisaM

(29,634 posts)
1. I like this beer, though I have not seen it at Seattle-area grocery stores.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 08:41 PM
Oct 2020

I can probably find it at Total Wine - I'll have to look next time I'm there.

Celerity

(54,409 posts)
7. it is one of my favourite American IPA's, for sure. It's super hard to get here in Sweden, so we
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 09:16 PM
Oct 2020

usually buy (if we want an IPA)

Ballast Point Sculpin IPA

https://ballastpoint.com/beer/sculpin/


A TROPHY BEER THAT’S A TESTAMENT TO OUR HOMEBREW ROOTS

Our Sculpin IPA is a great example of what got us into brewing in the first place. After years of experimenting, we knew hopping an ale at five separate stages would produce something special. The result ended up being this gold-medal winning IPA, whose inspired use of hops creates hints of apricot, peach, mango and lemon flavors, but still packs a bit of a sting, just like a Sculpin fish.


 

sfstaxprep

(10,599 posts)
5. Available At My Local Total Wine & More In Bottles For $10 per 6 Pack
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 09:01 PM
Oct 2020

The recommendations here have convinced me to give it a try. I'll pick some up tomorrow.

mitch96

(15,804 posts)
6. Ironically I had this beer for the first time last weekend. I like it!!
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 09:14 PM
Oct 2020

Being a high gravity beer I thought it might taste like pine needles but it was surprisingly mild in the hops department. Very refreshing and not heavy like some IPA's
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William Seger

(12,443 posts)
9. Almost all the beers in the top 10 are IPAs
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 10:01 PM
Oct 2020

Not really my favorite -- usually too hoppy for my taste -- but I see a local store has it, so I'll have to give it a try.

Celerity

(54,409 posts)
11. I am a stout and porter girl, but not exclusively. Try some hazy, tropical IPA's they are not pine
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 10:25 PM
Oct 2020
needle-on-blast hop monsters.

Or a nice gose, (pronounced GO-zuh), a sour, slightly salty, unfiltered, wheat-beer style originating from Lower Saxony, in Germany, near the Gose River.

We just got this one (from the US, California) into Systembolaget (our Swedish liquor monopoly). It is jummi AF!






http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/beer/fruitlands








mopinko

(73,726 posts)
12. my go to is all day ipa from founders.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 10:33 PM
Oct 2020

i confess partly because i used to have that jeep. except mine was midnight blue.
great car. till i let the bf borrow it...
comes in a 15 pak that sells around here for $18. great beer, great price.

Celerity

(54,409 posts)
13. It is very well-balanced, deffo not a pine needle mouth grenade (which I detest, but that style is
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 10:39 PM
Oct 2020

adored here in Sweden, lol). My fellow Swedes (over half of them at least) also love surströmming (fermented, damn-near rotted tinned Baltic herring) My wife (she is full Swede, I am half Swede) loves the shite, but it is NOT allowed around me! LOLOLOLOL



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