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| Lagunitas’s Jack Alger called me last week to see if I would like to participate in an experiment. The brewery had had a refrigerated truck full of fresh hops shipped from Yakima (Equinox, Amarillo, Mosaic), put them into a beer brewed on the equinox, and was offering to overnight me a bottle the day the beer was packaged–which was yesterday.
I have no idea if Jack knows that I have been assiduously documenting the maturation of fresh hop ales for years or that I am incredibly skeptical of 1) any fresh hops that spend longer than a few hours off the vine, 2) the techniques of breweries distant from the fresh hop epicenter where brewers have learned how to use them, and especially 3) bottled fresh hop beers. If he did, it was a ballsy move. In my mind, this was an almost certainly doomed experiment. But, because it was Lagunitas, where brewers are master-level hop wranglers, I figured I’d give it a shot. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I wanted to see for myself, anyway. Guess what? I … |
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