An impromptu beer tasting, lots of old favorites, and of course football were the highlights of our weekend. A couple of stand-out beers rose to the top of our list, and we want to hear about your favorites!

We’ll be writing a little more about the beers that we tried for the Hops + Wheat tasting, but Midnight Sun Brewing’s Hop Dog deserves a mention in Pick of the Weekend. The beer is a big, wheat-heavy, double IPA with tons and tons of fruity-hop flavors. Not your average White IPA, the 8%ABV Hop Dog had a great interplay between the sweet cereal flavor from the wheat and the huge 100 IBU hop bitterness that kept us sipping on it. It tasted not unlike a kids fruity breakfast cereal that was dosed with fresh hops. Delicious!

And finally there was Tart Lychee from New Belgium’s Lips of Faith line. A mix of oak-aged sour ale, cinnamon-spiced ale, and lychee fruit the Tart Lychee is mild but still has a complex flavor and aroma. It is a very approachable sour beer; great for beer drinkers who may not have a lot of experience with sours or may be weary of the style in general. The cinnamon and lychee flavors are very much in the background with a clean lactic acid tartness taking center stage. And at under $10 for a bomber it is a (comparatively) affordable gamble if you’re not fully sold on the tarter-side of craft beers.

We stuck to lots of old favorites over the weekend, did you try anything new that you just have to talk about? Let’s hear about your favorite beer from the last weekend in  the comments!