MARCH 6, 2025 | FEATURES | By Izzy Roe and Megan Burich
Hello readers!
We are back with another beer review this week, featuring Dry Dock’s Tropical Sour at a chill 5% ABV. We want to apologize for the large amount of sours we have been ripping these past few months. Every weekend, we grow more and more wary of something that is going to get us sloshed and hurt our tummies. Most IPAs are 7% ABV or more, and they are just becoming less enjoyable after weekends of copious drinking.
This week was especially tough for Izzy, who almost refused to review the beer for the article because she “wanted to give her liver a rest.” In other words, she is not committed to the cause of reviewing beers for the hot babes that read our articles. Bad Izzy! On the other hand, Megan has decided that her goal is to drink FEWER sours in the next Block and more Imperials. If she’s gonna drink on The Catalyst’s dime, she might as well get drunk!
Enough chatting, let’s get into the beer. This beer was sweeter than sour and with notes of passionfruit, orange and guava, it was very easy to get down. Izzy described it as reminiscent of Rastall’s P.O.G. juice, if that gives any indication for how easy this was to drink.
The weird thing about this beer was that we didn’t get any burps until the end of our second beer. Even after yet another disappointing chug from Izzy, because her teeth were apparently cold, and a glorious one from Megan, there was pain in the chest but no release. We theorized on the reasons for the lack of burps: small bubbles, not enough carbonation or the lack of a loose cricopharyngeus? The world may never know unless Dry Dock or God wants to do us a service.
This beer paired well with watching the second episode of “White Lotus”, as the third season just came out. With this viewing came ideas of having the next “White Lotus” somewhere cold and outdoorsy, like Aspen (we know someone wants to kill us after that statement), Patagonia or Telluride. Just some thoughts for the HBO producers. Someone let us know if they have a contact and we can email them some critiques (we know one of you CC people knows someone who knows someone!).
This beer also paired well with trying on wigs for Pink and Yellow House’s wig themed Tony’s pregame. This pregame comes after similar liver-conscious sentiments from Ella Simons ‘25, a resident at Pink and Yellow. A mere 30 seconds after saying she “wasn’t going to drink this week,” the house decided to host a pregame, and that resolution was thrown out the door.
Megan was glad to see that while everyone started off their Monday with hopes of being sober, we all ended up drunk or with plans to drink. All is right in the world. Overall, this beer was too easy to drink, which was the only highlight of the drinking experience. The can design was mid, and so was the beer. Like we always say, though, it could be worse! We hope everyone enjoyed this week’s review. As we depart, Izzy is scared how much of a pussy she’s become given we are approaching her senior spring and Block 8. We don’t know if she is going to make it out alive, so wish her luck!