Beers 120 and 121 - Dogfish Head 60 min and 90 min IPA

Brewed in Delaware, these beers were bought and drunk at Cricket's Grill and Draft House, Waco, TX where we stopped for lunch on our way to Fort Worth for the NASCAR Sprint cup race tomorrow.

This is a big, very big, sports bar that looks like a converted warehouse. There are around 120 beers available on the beer list many of which (most) are on tap. The menu is typical sports bar with hamburgers, sandwiches and a few token salads, fish and chips and fried chicken dishes. We both ate cheese burgers, Patricia's was beef with fried onions and mushrooms mine was buffalo with spicy sauce and blue cheese. We both cleared our plates - and ate all the fries.

The beers were both excellent. Strong taste with the hops coming through. The 90 min was 9% alc/vol the 60 min was 6% alc/vol, The Dogfish Head web site - http://www.dogfish.com/ - says "Our 60 Minute IPA is continuously hopped - more than 60 hop additions over a 60 minute boil (getting a vibe yet of where the name came from?). 60 Minute is a session India Pale Ale brewed with a slew of great North West hops. A powerful, but balanced East Coast I.P.A. with a lot of citrusy hop character. The session beer for hardcore beer enthusiasts!" and "Esquire Magazine calls our 90 Minute IPA., "perhaps the best I.P.A. in America." An Imperial I.P.A. brewed to be savored from a snifter. A big beer with a great malt backbone that stands up to the extreme hopping rate.  90 Minute IPA was our first continually-hopped beer, which is a method of hopping that allows for a pungent, but not crushing hop flavor."

Both beers were very nice, flavorful and easy to drink, well balanced but not for the faint hearted.

This is the 60 Min IPA

This is the 90 minute IPA (I remembered the photograph after almost finishing the beer)