Tag: Botanical IPA

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Patio beer

Stone Brewing has been outside apparently, which is probably why Patio Magic Double IPA is now out.

“This 8.8% botanical creation uses a special ingredient from New Zealand called Phantasm, which is made from Sauvignon Blanc grape skin extract. When making white wine, grapes are pressed off their skins. The skins produce some of those amazing fruit characteristics also found in hops. In combination with certain yeasts and hops it intensifies the flavor and aroma experience.

Combine that with a hefty dose of the experimental hop HBC 843 from Hop Breeding Company, and you’ve got an immensely complex but simply amazing IPA.”

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Review – Botanical IPA from Dry River

This is my first IPA from the Dry River crew and I am excited to see what these botanicals add/subtract and how they have interpreted the style.
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Bouquet is a “barrel fermented IPA “dry hopped” with locally foraged botanicals.” Which the brewer believes imparts spice, orange peel, grapefruit, white pepper, clove and sweet citrus.

Let’s see if it does…..
I will have to respectfully disagree about the IPA but this is made up for in the botanical part of the name. This is way spicy. Murky brown with a big earthy aroma to it. Cinnamon, nutmeg and just damn winter ale like to me. Like walking into a spice purveyor. More saison like to me. I am even catching some really rough pineapple notes too. But that is a deep cut.

I really like this but it is quite different from the “normal” beers out there.