Add in my favorite hop Strata along with one yet unnamed hops HBC586 in both standard and cryo formats and you get…
…the scary bloody mouthed Cactus Car from Ogopogo Brewing.
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OG
Here is another collaboration beer alert – OG IPA from Kern River Brewing teamed with L.A’s El Segundo Brewing .
The details – “The goal was to wind back the clock to before things got Hazy and celebrate the California IPA before it became known as “West Coast”. Maybe we are just old-fashioned, but we still feel out about the beers people were making decades ago and raise a glass to those O.G. HOP INNOVATORS. with Citra, Centennial and Amarillo hops; piney and dank with lemony citrus notes.”
Rusted
You probably are not going to find me at a concert anytime soon and I tend to avoid music at breweries but if a red ale is the result of a brewery / band partnership then count me in to Project Barley’s Rusted Roses Red Ale.
Good Dreams
Most of my dreams are of the treadmill variety. Trying to get somewhere or do something but never quite achieving. Common Space Brewing has a better idea, a new triple IPA…
TTIPA
Summer might be pilsner weather but it is also tropical weather some days when the humidity hovers overhead. So why not lean into it hard and go tropical and triple…
Pacific Plate has worked with these fruits before. I expect they will get that pineapple to hop ratio right.
Blonde Day – Yuzu Dry
I like to see beer styles get a little reinvigorated. Blonde ale is one that fits the bill and Claremont Craft Ales has obliged by drying out their new summer release and adding yuzu as well.
Sureally
Label design is tough and I can be a harsh judge. Paperback Brewing has a bold dime store novel cover with super bright colors look that I don’t vibe with but they have a winner with their Surrealist beer…
…and it doesn’t hurt that the style of beer is one that I, personally, would like to see more of, the Belgian Blonde ale.
Overgrown
Boomtown Brewery has new Artist Series hoppy beer…
“Overgrowth Hazy DIPA is 8.2% brewed with American Mosaic & New Zealand Motueka hops. Aromas of Clementine, Papaya & Strawberries and jungle-like flavors of Apricot, Papaya & Mango.”
The artist is “Christina Chi is LA based working in animation production. Her art is influenced by playful chunky shapes and saturated colors, a love for silly creatures, brand mascots, old comic strips. Overgrowth was inspired by an innate desire to explore a world filled with little critters. “This is how I imagine a fantasy world would look like if I were four inches tall!”
Actually
Fresh off of a collaboration with El Segundo where they brewed up trouble, Ogopogo Brewing is at it again with this time with BareBottle ‘Actual Friends’
This effort is “a DDH Hazy IIPA 8.5% with Nelson, Citra, Incognito Citra, and Nelson CGX.”
Cold Sabro
And not just Sabro featured in the new beer from Los Angeles Ale Works, Hopped Out Cold Cold IPA
“Crisp, clean and crystal clear. You won’t find any malty sweetness distracting you from the real showcase here – the hops. Sabro, Mosaic and Citra play off one another with a restrained bitterness and refreshingly balanced notes of dank pine, coconut, black current and lemon.”