{"id":21800,"date":"2019-02-19T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=21800"},"modified":"2019-02-20T08:54:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:54:15","slug":"south-park-brewing-is-tipa-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2019\/02\/19\/south-park-brewing-is-tipa-tops\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park Brewing’s TIPA is tops"},"content":{"rendered":"

For most, Sunday mornings are reserved for church or coffee and the paper, but Hamilton\u2019s Tavern<\/strong><\/a> sets aside one early Sabbath per year for hop fiends to indulge in one of the head-wrecking-est styles of beer on the planet: triple IPAs. The famed South Park beer bar\u2019s annual IIIPA challenge took place over the weekend and featured 16 India pale ales coming in at more than 10% alcohol-by-volume, all of which were sampled by a pre-ticketed panel of beer fans, media and industry insiders who were asked to score them based on simple criteria: which one do you like the most?<\/em><\/p>\n

The field included triple IPAs from Abnormal Beer Co.<\/strong><\/a>, Alpine Beer Co.<\/strong><\/a>, Amplified Ale Works<\/strong><\/a>, Beachwood Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, Burgeon Beer Co.<\/strong><\/a>, Burning Beard Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, El Segundo Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, Half Door Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, Karl Strauss Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, Knee Deep Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, North Park Beer Co.<\/strong><\/a>, Pizza Port<\/strong><\/a>, Resident Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, Revision Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, South Park Brewing <\/strong><\/a>and the originator of the style, Russian River Brewing<\/strong><\/a>. The annual edition of the latter\u2019s famed and elusive Pliny the Younger was tapped especially for the occasion.<\/p>\n

Once all the votes had been cast, the peoples\u2019 choice competition produced the following top five:<\/p>\n

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  1. For Duty & Humanity\u00a0<\/strong>(10.2%), South Park Brewing, South Park<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Resident 3viiiL,<\/strong> (10.5%), Resident Brewing, East Village<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Pliny the Younger, <\/strong>(10.25%),\u00a0Russian River Brewing, Windsor<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Hops of Fury, <\/strong>(11%),\u00a0Beachwood Brewing, Long Beach<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Riggity Wrecked,<\/strong> (11%),\u00a0Pizza Port, San Clemente<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Two local breweries took the top two spots while three well-respected veteran out-of-towners filled out the rest of the top spots. This was the third straight year this competition has been held. Last year, Pizza Port swept the competition with Thruster, Riggity Wrecked and Blinky taking the top three spots.\u00a0In 2017, Knee Deep took top honors with Simtra, narrowly beating out Monkey Paw Brewing<\/strong>\u2019s Muriqui and Pliny the Younger, which placed third that year as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For most, Sunday mornings are reserved for church or coffee and the paper, but Hamilton\u2019s Tavern sets aside one early Sabbath per year for hop fiends to indulge in one of the head-wrecking-est styles of beer on the planet: triple IPAs. The famed South Park beer bar\u2019s annual IIIPA challenge took place over the weekend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-events","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hamiltons.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"Brewery\u2019s hop-bomb wins Hamilton\u2019s Tavern\u2019s annual triple IPA challenge","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5FC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}