Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the
NorCal Beer Blog's brew review.
Tonight’s featured beer is Stone Brewing Company
Collaboration - Baird - Stone - Ishii Japanese Green Tea IPA. I picked
this bottle up at The Wine Club in San Jose (here). They have a small craft beer
section, but they have an incredible selection. If you're anywhere near
The Wine Club go visit them and tell 'em Mark from NorCal Beer Blog sent you!
From the Stone Brewing Company website: “Our style of
brewing has always been about taking chances. It’s an extension of our
“what-if” mentality, wherein we ask ourselves what would happen if we did
things differently in the brewhouse, such as fermenting with a different
strain of yeast or, in the case of this beer, incorporating whole-leaf green
tea imported from Japan. The answer, embodied in this IPA when we first
released it in 2011, was something truly magnificent, delicious and well worth
brewing again. But what if we changed it up a bit? This time around, we
exchanged Pacifica hops from New Zealand for Helga hops from Australia. The
result is an IPA that’s as bright, herbaceous and bitingly hoppy as the one
that’s had our fans requesting its return ever since its depletion from store
shelves, but with a modern, hop-driven twist that makes this second draft
unique and tasty in its own right.”
Let’s get started!
Appearance: Pours
golden orange with a nice white head and loads of lacing.
Aroma: Green tea,
tropical fruit, honey, caramel and biscuit malts and some citrus.
Taste: Tropical
fruit, pale and bready malts, honey, caramel, green tea and citrus.
Overall: I
enjoyed Stone Brewing Company Collaboration - Baird - Stone - Ishii Japanese
Green Tea IPA and found it quite drinkable.
This 10.1% offering is certainly something that fans of Green Tea should
pick up and try. A nice DIPA, but for some it may be too eccentric to try.
Worth checking out.
Cheers!
Mark Harvey
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