Tag: El Dorado

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The Latest Salvo

Hopsteiner has added to their brand line with the new “Salvo™ is an aroma extract that delivers impactful variety-specific flavor. Bittering acids have been removed to explicitly enhance flavor and aroma with little to no added bitterness.”

This part may be too inside mash tun talk but when everything is costing more nowadays, it becomes a more salient point, “Salvo™ is best used as a late kettle/whirlpool addition to partially replace leaf or pellet hops, and since Salvo™ contains no vegetative matter, our flavor extract can help mitigate beer yield loss.”

I have seen the El Dorado hop advertised as “Salvo’d” but other fruit forward hops are sure to follow.

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Too Close

21st Amendment Brewing is always near hops especially with their new, Close Encounters of a Hop Kind.

The Bay Area brewery describes it as an “8.5% ABV Double IPA transports beer drinkers far beyond typical Double IPAs with CLS Farms’ extraterrestrial proprietary hop varieties: El Dorado®, Zappa®, and the brand new, never before used CLS X-14. Handcrafted out of a love for experimental hops.”

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Round 3 of Bursted


The third batch of Bursted Single Hop IPA’s from El Segundo takes us deeper into hop varietal territory with Vic’s Secret, El Dorado and Denali. All of which are not as ubiquitous as your Citra’s and Mosaics but might end up being fan favorites.

At 9 bombers, this will be quite the horizontal tasting.

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Review – King Harbor IPA

IMG_3635 I am so glad that King Harbor is bottling. And also glad the bottle design is cool, compared to Beach City and Bell’s which are also in fiber beer shoppes.

Enough art talk though. What about the IPA?

It pours a dark yellow and the aroma toggles between pineapple, grape and cat pee in equal measure. The taste is solid to above average. I am a big fan of their Swirly beer, so I think they target my darker malt palate but I do enjoy this IPA. It has a nice mixture of flavors without being beat upon the head with hops.  I much prefer this method so den though the finish is a little alcohol burn heavy for me, I still like this offering.  And I hope for more bottles in the future.
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Gluten Low

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To be completely clear, this is not a gluten-free beer.  I believe that Stone is using a similar system to that of Widmer and the Omission series of beers where the gluten is stripped out later.  Not brewed without gluten.  Either way, the fact that Lemondrop and El Dorado hops are being used should be enough to get anyone, regardless of dietary needs, to check this out.  I have been hard on Stone in past years for falling into a rut with their mainline IPA’s but they have done good work with the Enjoy By series and their Liberty Station brews are interesting and fun.  2015 might be a mini-revival for the brand in my eyes.  And I will be looking for this beer.

UPDATE – If you can withstand a little bit of gluten, then this might be your IPA.  And if you are gluten tolerant, then it might become an alternative, along with Go To Session IPA, to the massive hop bombs that are in the regular Stone line-up.  This is a mighty hoppy beer.  But it is also subtle.  There are grape notes and a bit of peppery rye type spice in here.  The bitterness really lingers on the palate but is quite nice.  And big plus, it doesn’t have the Tofurky curse that some gluten free beers have where you know they had to substitute, and it just doesn’t match up.  Good work.