Stale hops with minimal citrus sniffed off the bottle neck. Taste is overwhelmingly solvet - nail varnish remover. (Excessive ethyl acetate as a by product of aggressive (too warm?) fermentation of the yeast? Have I got that right?) A chewy, grassy hop bitterness, which was great, but the chemically edge still lingered for most of this. The gentle caramelly malt profile came through as my glass warmed. The after-bitterness lingered but it wasn't that strong. Overall, a slightly disappointing instalment in the Holy Hoppin' DIPA series from
Weird Beard.
Bit more research leads me to believe that perhaps this might need to condition in the bottle for a bit longer. If Manish has any left, I might pop back and get some and drink them in a couple of weeks or so.
ReplyDeleteJust had a bottle of Batch 4 and it was spot on.
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