day 275 - Torpedo

After surviving the seasonals, I looked at the pipeline of 3 beers left, and the choices were this, an English ale and a Frubee. Pffft, not a hard one tonight, but tomorrow will be tougher...

The excitement grew as the pour was my favorite burnt orange and the hops aroma was nice and dry. Then the exquisite citrusy deliciousness was filling my tastebuds and another monday becomes successfully survived.


Specs:

Full name: Torpedo Extra IPA
Brewed By: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co
From: Chico CA
ABV: 7.2%

given I had to look up the ABV on the website, I finally remembered to check the hops as well, the info of which happened to be right there. So, Magnum is the heavy lifter, found in the bittering, finishing and dry hopping processes. Then you have Crystal in the finishing and dry, and lastly Citra in the dry. Thus 3 different hops are used. For comparision (on a roll tonight...), Hazed & Infused uses Nugget, Williamette, Crystal and Centential, and the last two for dry hopping as well. Hoptical Illusion uses a "rare hops exclusively grown on a farm in Oregon", so no match there either. Hum, perhaps there is no real pattern, but perhaps I'll keep looking, or better yet, drinking... ;>)

Cheers.

Day 119 Harvest

It's a saturday night, and I pulled out the big gun, at leat 24oz. This is a limited brew by a mid-major brewery, and overall quite tasty.

A deep reddish gold color, and strong hops puts this one on the thumbs up side.

Specs:

Full Name: Southern Hemisphere Harvest
Brewed By: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co
From: Chico CA
ABV: 6.7%

This one is made from hops brought in from New Zealand (thus the name). While pretty good, Cullen had nabbed one of the other palies from my pipeline before dinner and it was even better. Now I have to get another one to write about...

Go Hoos, beat Duke in Lax!