The Maple Sap batch of beer
Me too. You are I are malt-heads. Peeps who like bitter are hop-heads. Interestingly, overhopped beer deadens your taste buds for hoppiness, so the more you drink the more hops you need to get the same taste. Like crack, I guess. Peeps figure this explains the American trend to make bigger and bigger hop bombs all the time, it is sort of an American thing.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The hoppiness in beer is a trend I'm not overly fond of because overhopping is used to cover up your mistakes. That being said, certain IPAs are fucking awesome. Bell's Two-Hearted, for example.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Cracked a beer, and it is pretty interesting. More hoppiness than I expected... I wonder if the sap somehow allowed the hops to express themselves better.
For those who don't know, hoppiness is often expressed by the volume of water you use during the boil. If you throw an ounce of hops into 4 gallons of water it will express more than an ounce of hops in 2.5 gallons of water.
But it's good. I wish I had a better beer vocabulary with which to explain it.
For those who don't know, hoppiness is often expressed by the volume of water you use during the boil. If you throw an ounce of hops into 4 gallons of water it will express more than an ounce of hops in 2.5 gallons of water.
But it's good. I wish I had a better beer vocabulary with which to explain it.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."