Comments on: Hop Flower Travellin’ Band (Southern Tier Unearthly) http://brewdogblog.com/2008/05/hop-flower-travellin-band-southern-tier-unearthly/ brews we have encountered Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:21:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: stinky http://brewdogblog.com/2008/05/hop-flower-travellin-band-southern-tier-unearthly/comment-page-1/#comment-29 stinky Fri, 30 May 2008 13:47:32 +0000 http://brewdogblog.com/?p=24#comment-29 I finally drank another one of these on Tuesday night. I did enjoy the hop bonanza that is the unearthly but I think at the end of the day I actually might prefer it's little brother the Phin and Matt's Extraordinary Ale. While it doesn't have quite the complexity of the Unearthy (while both are boiled with Cascade, sent through a hop back of Styrian Golding and then dry hopped with Cascades, the Unearthly is bolstered with Chinooks in the kettle and dry hopped with Chinooks, Centenials as well as the aforementioned Cascades) it packs a ton of piney and resiny hop character into an incredibly light bodied, low IBu, low alchohol brew. Serious hop character, not the sort of apologetic hop character that you use to describe an English IPA. I guess I've just drank so many syrupy Double IPAs that its more exciting for me now to watch brewers start to really get good at getting big hops out of small beers, like Phin and Matt's Extraordinary Ale and Two Brother's Bitter End Pale Ale. I finally drank another one of these on Tuesday night. I did enjoy the hop bonanza that is the unearthly but I think at the end of the day I actually might prefer it’s little brother the Phin and Matt’s Extraordinary Ale. While it doesn’t have quite the complexity of the Unearthy (while both are boiled with Cascade, sent through a hop back of Styrian Golding and then dry hopped with Cascades, the Unearthly is bolstered with Chinooks in the kettle and dry hopped with Chinooks, Centenials as well as the aforementioned Cascades) it packs a ton of piney and resiny hop character into an incredibly light bodied, low IBu, low alchohol brew. Serious hop character, not the sort of apologetic hop character that you use to describe an English IPA.

I guess I’ve just drank so many syrupy Double IPAs that its more exciting for me now to watch brewers start to really get good at getting big hops out of small beers, like Phin and Matt’s Extraordinary Ale and Two Brother’s Bitter End Pale Ale.

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