Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2013 May 10 • Friday

Before I went up north to play music and try some Ontario microbrew, I sampled a couple of very unusual beers from my two favorite breweries.

Founders in Grand Rapids, Michigan, nails every beer style they try and even comes up with some new ones once in a while. Recently they released Doom, an Imperial IPA aged in bourbon barrels.

It's a weird combination of flavors. The whole family liked it but it's something that I would only want to drink a few times a year.

Stone, my other favorite brewery, also put out a strange take on IPA. Collaborating with two other breweries, Aleman and Two Brothers, they created Dayman, a Coffee IPA.

I thought this was a terrible idea for a beer but actually I loved it! After drinking a bottle with my brother, I went back to the shop to buy more.

In Toronto, when I mentioned this to Jim Sexton, our bass player, he told me that he's been dropping espresso shots in his IPAs for years! I guess I'm just behind the times.