Being huge fans of America’s Pastime, we try to come up with some kind of baseball + beer related content every April to coincide with the start of the season. This roundup features 9 beers. Play ball!
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This is our list of Top 10 California Pale Ales. These are not wheat-based, blondes, or seasonal — just straight-up year round offerings brewed somewhere in California, regardless of region.
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Erin Mosbaugh at First We Feast wrote a fantastic article about the evolution of the West Coast Style IPA.
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I’ll admit it — I have always been a Sierra Nevada fanboy, and I was as caught up in the pre-release hype over this IPA as anybody. But after a few drinks of Hop Hunter IPA, the blinders I was wearing got knocked right off my face, and I came to a few realizations about this beer.
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Welcome to our final installment of the Sierra Nevada Harvest series, Wild Hop IPA – Neomexicanus Hops. Let’s see if this experimental native hop can topple Northern Hemisphere Wet Hop, to be crowned best of the 2014 series.
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Would you like to be able to drink wet hopped beer year round? Thanks to Sierra Nevada’s newest brewing innovation, that dream is now a reality!
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Northern Hemisphere Wet Hop IPA was a more subdued IPA, not as hop forward as say, their next release – Celebration Ale. It featured a substantial malt presence, which mellowed the ale, and showcased its herbal qualities.
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Harvest Single Hop IPA – Equinox Hops foamed up more than adequately, into a few fingers thick of wispy foam, and kept a nice coat of froth the rest of the way. Surprise, surprise, another Sierra Nevada IPA with great retention…
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As craft breweries like Sierra Nevada and New Belgium Brewing expand their production capacity, they’re providing quality as well as quantity across ever wider distances. And smaller breweries are benefitting too.
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The idea behind this beer is that hops are harvested in New Zealand (Southern Hemisphere) fields, then quickly transported back to Sierra Nevada for brewing. What designates it a “fresh hop” is the…
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Just as a disclaimer, this is our favorite beer (at the time of writing this post). We don’t know if any brewer could ever cram enough hops into an IPA for our liking, but Hoptimum comes the closest thus far.
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Yakima 291 featured a transitional mouthfeel. At first the fluffy head created a buttery effect as you sipped through it, followed by light and crispy from its extreme effervescence.
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