G13 Dank Double Hazy IPA

Review Date 5/2/2025 By John Staradumsky

  Style: Double IPA   Brewery: Sweetwater   Country: USA   State: Georgia   $ Per OZ: $.16 (B)   ABV: 9%

Well hello there, cherished readers, I’m back! It is a Saturday morning, May 3^rd as I type, and I have been on hiatus here since early April. Actually, I just posted a review earlier this morning of an aged bottle of New Holland Black Hatter that I drank almost a month ago. I had started on a page for this beer around the first week of the month, but the demands of work and then other concerns delayed it. So, I am now typing out my first review in all this time, on a can of Sweetwater G13 Dank Double Hazy IPA.

April was, for me, a very trying month. It began on the 7^th, when I made it about halfway through the workday and retired to the bedroom, not feeling so well. As the day progressed into evening, I began to have chills and severe fatigue. Next morning when I awoke, I had aches and pains and just felt awful. My wife suggested a Covid test-and it was positive.

This was my first ever bout with Covid, and it was a severe one. I was sick with fever, sore throat, fatigue to the point I would be awake for an hour or two and need a nap. I had coughing fits so bad that I could not even talk without triggering one. I missed a week of work, and wasn’t quite myself for the first week back. I was very sick indeed for three weeks. My wife, who also had never ahd Covid before, caught it from me but thankfully her case was not as severe and she recovered more quickly.

I didn’t have a beer for almost the full three weeks. The first one that I did was an Abita Mardi Gras Bock at Taco Mac watching the NFL draft with my sons, and I still was not my usual self. Worse yet, that day my dear friend Rudy passed away. I did not learn of this until the next morning. We had been friends since 1982, a long time indeed, and although with the responsibilities of work always pressing I had not seen him as often as I should have, we did speak a few times recently. I am glad for that.

Last Tuesday night, I went through Rudy’s things looking for documents regarding his final affairs. Returning home from this and talking to my wife, I missed ny exit off I-75, took the next one and ended up on Barrett Parkway. As I was going past Everest Spirits (formerly Sherlocks), I stopped in and one of the beers I picked up was a 19.2 ounce can of Sweetwater G13 Dank Double Hazy IPA.

Sweetwater G13 Dank Double Hazy IPA  has an alcohol content of 9% by volume and I paid $2.99 for my can at Everest. It has a best by date of 08/10/25.  Actually, when I bought this I thought it was the original 420 Strain G13 IPA, which I adore. This is a bigger, stronger version of that beer.

Sweetwater G13 Dank Double Hazy IPA pours to a bright orange color with a thick fluffy white head and a nose of dank earthy terpenes. Taking a sip, the beer is medium in body, less than I expected in such a massive beer. It’s infused with those herbal dank terpenes, and they emerge even more in the hop burps. Oddly enough, they seem less dominant than in the original version, but there is no mistaking them. The beer finishes warming with alcohol, and I like it and will be on the lookout for more. Truth be told, I still prefer the original which is danker and stickier, but that is a great beer to be sure so the bar is high here.

 Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??