This is a beer you can eat with a piece of cake, or drink while smoking a cigar. This is a beer you want to put into your snifter, swirl around, and appreciate. It's a dense and heavy beer, but it also is really good at bringing the cake-brandy flavors home. I also want to take a moment to call shenanigans on the BJCP.
They list this as a notable example of an Imperial IPA. I'm not sure I agree. If we go by the strict guidelines, this may actually push qualification. That really goes to show you how open to interpretation style guidelines are. I bring it up because the BJCP isn't beer dogma Anyway, back to me. This is a really good beer that I would like to enjoy on occasion. I will get this beer again.
Especially in the warmer months. I just want to be open about that fact. At the end of the day, this is obviously a high-quality beer. It's a good dessert beer and a good craft beer. It's a really fun Imperial IPA with some offbeat notes including brandy, cake, and even some dark fruits. It's quite dense and it does take on a slightly oily characteristic as it warms up. Nevertheless, this is very drinkable but preferably as a sipper. I warmly recommend this beer, and look forward to having it again in the future.
No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. If you live in — ready? Sam first brewed it in , when, as the story goes, he was watching a cooking show where the chef talked about the benefits of adding tiny pinches of pepper to a recipe throughout the entire simmering process instead of dumping it all in at once.
What if I do that with hops? As the game vibrated, the hops dropped through the hole in the bucket and into the kettle. And so the continuous hopping process was born. Instead of adding the hops over a minute period hence the name , Sam tried adding them over 60 minutes.
The experiment gave rise to the 60 Minute IPA. Interestingly enough, in addition to being named for their hopping process, the 60 contains 6. We started with the 60 Minute, which poured a clear amber with an off-white head. The flavor, though, came through big, with tropical fruit supported by a bready, malty backbone and a hoppy, bitter aftertaste.
Then, the Sixty-One. Punkin Ale. Burton Baton. Piercing Pils. Do not age. Yes , it's the bottling date. The showcase of the beer - the bright hop flavors - will have undoubtedly faded by now. More alcohol is usually better for aging. The first crucial rule of aging beer is irrefutable: Age doesn't necessarily make a beer better — it changes the flavor. Usually, as with hoppy beer, different means worse as oxidation dulls flavors and produces new and distracting flavor compounds.
This is Lagunitas' unique version of an ancient style. It is made with 43 different hops and 65 various malts. This IPA is full of flavor with notes of spice, roasted malts, caramel, and citrus fruit. Taste: Fresh citrus, caramel, herbal hops. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.
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