Why We Picked It: This is a known beer to most of us, and the fact that we agreed on it quickly is a good sign. Also, with so many blondes and sours, we needed a double IPA. I do recommend a visit for the locals. They have a really nice setup, especially since opening a food service side a couple years ago.
What Jailbreak Say About It: A well balanced double IPA with a semisweet malt backbone and complimented with generous amounts of citrus and tropical fruit hops. Rich, delicious, and rewardingly punishing.
ABV: 8.5%
IBU: 93
Website: https://jailbreakbrewing.com/
What Jailbreak Says About Jailbreak: Jailbreak is a freedom expression. Beginning in 2013, and becoming fully operational in 2014, our artfully crafted beer is meant to be an escape from whatever drama is present in your life. We are made up of professionals from various industries, all brought together by the common desire to make something different and do something with our lives that has more purpose.
You should go slash someone to get all that pent up energy out. Not me, but someone.
ReplyDeleteDelicious! The "semisweet malt backbone" really made it feel more like a barley wine... and my wife and I consider that a good thing :-) Very enjoyable, and good contrast with the recent run of blondes.
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Nowadays, Jailbreak makes me think of my kid's sometimes annoying Roblox game, but then I remind myself that its a pretty high quality brewery about 15 mins from my house.
ReplyDeleteI've had Big Pun many times before, and Double IPAs are generally my favorite style. I don't put this in the category of Russian River, Southern Tier, Dogfish or any of my personal favs. However, its right behind that group. and a nice break from all the sour and sweet stuff too. It a nice strong flavor, but not too boozy with a mild bitterness and a nice touch of caramel. I will probably have another later tonight.
Related story: This beer was a victim of delivery issues and poorly designed boxes. As a result, it rolled out of the back of my car on delivery day and the can cracked on the ground. I raced home to chill the remnants, but much was lost. So to keep in the spirits of 24DOB (and because I like Big Pun), I went back and bought a sixer. A good choice I must say.
Score: 3.25 out of 4
The can cracked? I have never had that happen. And yes, a bonus sixer of this is never a bad thing.
DeleteYes, it's happened to me a before. A small crack slowly spitting out delicious beer. If you open the beer, it slows the issues... but you have then opened the beer.
DeleteThis is definitely an old favorite. I realized that most of my check-ins have been at Parkway Deli. I think it's because I usually end up there after some school event and I am really needing the strongest beer they have. This is just a classic double IPA (as compared to all these new juice bombs). Hoppy, malty, and caramely. Love it. Very thick and sweet. Yes, it lets you know it's going to get you drunk, but you're very comfortable with that. And the bonus is that Ro was drinking her illegally smuggled in Tropicalia and so she gave me the whole beer! Although now I am kind of drunk and hungry. Minor problems. Minor problems. Jailbreak is a great place to visit once I leave my house again. I give this 4 out of 5 Frank Castles.
ReplyDeleteAhhh. Hit the spot.
ReplyDeleteI've moved away from high ABV beers for over a year now but I am a BIG high IBU fan and an IPA fan.
So this stirred something in me.
I've had it before and I looked on untappd at saw I rated it 3.75. That's high for me but today, I'd give it the same.
Classic American, east coast DIPA. Malty sweet, low citrus, high IBU. What not to love.
I will say though, one and done for me. Even if it wasn't so strong, I'm enjoying the lighter side of flavorful beers.
4 of 5 Thomas Jane's
Did you get that big IBU punch Theodore? If so I’m jealous I was really hoping for it and just didn’t find any. It made me sad 😢
DeleteI dig the Thomas Jane reference. I liked that movie!
DeleteOnce again, i lost my review because my iPad was logged into my work account and not my personal gmail. Maybe my comments were too mean, so this one will be “softer”.
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Looking at an 8.5% beer I was kind of dreading it. Now that I am older wiser I tend to like under 5% beers and I tend to look for things that are either very well balanced and remind me of what a “beer” should be (or something that is really out there and unique). This was neither....However this beer got lucky tonight. We had marinated some chicken drumsticks and grilled them up. Turns out the spice mix my 7 year old made was SUPER spicy (even for me and I keep a jar of pickled habaneros in the fridge to snack on). The sweet maltiness of the beer really helped to balance out that spice wave we unleashed on our house (and I will probably unleash on the toilet later tonight). That said all i really got was malt. My other 7 year old has stared to really look forward to my nightly tasting and smells my beer each night. He said right away it smelled like “old blueberries” and you know what, now that he said it, he’s not really wrong.
This beer does however bring up a pet peeve in the microbrew industry (same with the beer yesterday). When I see a beer style, I have an expectation of some key traits of a beer in that style. I understand this may technically fit in as a Double IPA, but with a double IPA I expect that high alcohol, I expect that sweetness from the extra sugars to pump that alcohol up. I do expect some hops, I expect that west cost high acid hop. With this, I got none of that as the sugars just drowned it out. Maybe its because the Double IPA is so new?
I know brewers are trying to put their own spin on beers (as they should), but for me each beer should be well balanced in the sense of that style. For a double IPA it needs that strong sweetness, it needs that ABV, but it needs an old school not sweet hop to round it out. For a Double IPA, it works on the west coast (just assuming thats where it started as that is where the best seem to come from) as you get those Old school Northwest hops. I don’t know what they used here but I suspect they went with Citra (like everyone else in the area does) and something else tropical and sweet. That was a mistake as it was just too sugary for a Double for me... i wanted those hops with it! These east coast Doubles just dont work for me.
Really I guess it boils down to *stomps feet like a toddler* WHY DONT BREWERIES JUST MAKE ALL STYLES IN THE WAY I LIKE AND NO OTHER WAY?!?! ME-ME-ME-ME!!!!
All that said, it really helped me get rid of that spice. So an even 3 out of 5 spicy drumsticks.
My greatest takeaway from all these 24DOBs is that I have no idea what most styles are supposed to taste like anymore.
DeleteI wonder if they will have some governing bodies like they do for wines. It’s going to end up hurting the industry.
DeleteJust returned from a camping trip- this was a delicious post-drive desert. 3/5
ReplyDeleteThis is such an innovative beer - this is a hazy, double IPA before hazy was a thing. And it's local! It's not my favorite style, but it does it so well, I have to give it props. I love Jailbreak, and this is a classic.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the best of Jailbreak's if you ask me. One of my favorites so far. They had this on tap at Frisco once and it was spectacular. Now I want another. Great beer.
ReplyDeleteThe highest ABV of the bunch. It is a solid DIPA go to as well. This is also found in a lot of restaurants as well. I wish I had another. 4 out of 5.
ReplyDeleteI love Jailbreak - but this is not one of the beers I would choose to buy - whether at the wonderful Jailbreak brewery or at a pub/restaurant. Its actually more enjoyable than I thought it would be. But its just Too sweet for me. I have to say I am not big on double IPAs. Too strong to have a few of them, which for me defeats the object. I like a longer evening - not a shorter evening. Also there's just too much of everything flavor-wise for me to consider it a beer. Though not as sweet or strong it does actually remind me of the first time I had a barley wine in my early 20s, ie 5 years ago. I only had one, preferring to drink pub regular ale - but one of my friends had 4 of these 9%-er barley wine 'beers' and he had trouble in the bathroom. Apparently another one of the group took a video of him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wtvMSd9uqw
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