Supplier: Beer52
Another year-round beer from this famous Californian brewery. This one being one of their five core IPAs, what makes this different is that they use "Farm Distilled Hop Oil" made by on-site steam distilling wet Cascade, Centennial, and CTZ hops to get pure hop oil. It also used other hops including Bravo, Cascade, Crystal, and Simcoe; along with a little bit of Oats in the malt bill. I served this chilled.
Another year-round beer from this famous Californian brewery. This one being one of their five core IPAs, what makes this different is that they use "Farm Distilled Hop Oil" made by on-site steam distilling wet Cascade, Centennial, and CTZ hops to get pure hop oil. It also used other hops including Bravo, Cascade, Crystal, and Simcoe; along with a little bit of Oats in the malt bill. I served this chilled.
Appearance: A pale colour, with a bit of gold when held to the light. The head is medium and pure white, but thins to a few bubbles.
Aroma: There's a deep, funky apricot hop note, pleasant and a little different.
Flavour: That same apricot note you find in the nose you get in the front, but this fades into a little bit more of a bitterness similer to the apricot pit with some sweet resin. Througout, there is an underlying sweet malt note.
Body: A good body, but not too much that it's not refreshing, dry in the back.
Aftertaste: Some more cereal and some sharp citrus hops.
Overall: Therefore this gets a rating of 7, a nice an hoppy IPA with some less common notes.
Price Range: The box of 10 beers was only £10.95 so that amounts to about £1.10 for a 355ml bottle; this obviously not the price you would normally pay. At this price, and more, it's a really good deal.
Food Pairings: I think the apricot hops would go well with lamb, and as it's a fresh beer, charing on the meat would be good. So I would say something like a barbequed lamb burger.
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