Anytime I head out to for a beer fridge restocking run, I make sure to pick up a bottle (or four to six) of a beer I’ve never tried before. On one of these runs, I picked up a four-pack of Titan IPA from the Great Divide Brewing Company. I won’t hide the fact that the beer was RateBeer tagged with a rating of 96, which definitely piqued my interest. I’d never bought a beer based primarily on its rating, so this would be interesting.
Some people aren’t fans of IPAs and consider them overly hoppy. For those people, you may want to give Titan a try. The characteristic hoppiness that I believe turns off some beer drinkers isn’t as pronounced, where it’s punching you in the tongue the second you take a sip. I don’t think I’d normally call IPAs “refreshing,” but the Titan is just that.
There are times when drinking IPAs that, over the course of several hours, if I have two at a party, I can’t have a third. The hoppiness lingers too much in my mouth, and it doesn’t really go with a lot of foods. Great Divide has figured out how to make an IPA taste like an IPA and allow you to have it with a meal without compromising it.
By far I’m calling this the best IPA I’ve ever had. I’ve tried my share of IPAs both bottled and on tap, and nothing’s come close. A four pack tends to be on the pricey side, but if you make it a special treat once a month, it makes the beer taste all that much better.
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Feb 13, 2009 @ 14:01 EST5EDT
