Batch 48 of maltcoutureddb is dripping with creaturecomfortsbeer rarities and brewdogofficial IP theft allegations. We play a dark lord variant guessing game! Finally, To bring balance to the new money force i make paulmichaelgabriel drink hillfarmstead Ephraim and get his impressions of an old school hoppy stunner. Sometimes these tiny underwing bottles will be the bag cereal versions of Arts and Samuels at a fraction of the cost of entry.
This beer has incredible sustain like a vintage telecaster, frothy meringue whip, aromatics redolent of hyacinth, lemon verbena, a bevy of bath and body works citrus. Taste is that jesterkingbrewery 1. Who cares? We get it. It is less sweet but oddly presents more spice and hard candy. The sheer depth and complexity of Prodigality makes up for any less than stellar entries and this is still very legit. I applaud their ability to wrangle what can become a caramel apple carnival disaster with those AB casks, to massage nuance from them shows gentle fingering of the stavey clutch.
The swallow is intensely long and the best part of this beer, loaded with allspice, almost a dry nutmeg. I love how diametrically opposed the contents of this box from foragerbrewery is.
On one hand we have subtle, delicate green glass saisons, with intent and mindfulness to the sourcing of the produce. Then we have apeshit confectionary frosting water that is the glucose equivalent of a Dodge Hellcat on your pancreas. Most breweries have to make boring beers so they can make a barrel aged stout or have lagers sit on draft forever. It has been a spicy minute since I have put the initimable hillfarmstead Ephraim inside of me. This borderline triple IPA harkens from a simpler time of hop culture.
It has a massive sticky resinous structure to it that unites sativa with tangelo, clementine pith and grapefruit JUUL. On the swallow is an impossible long conifer aspect that streaks with a caramel structure amongst the oily drag. Almost all of the classic West Coast iterations are dying and the rise of the Jamba Cadre is largely thanks to IG hazefluencers posting endless iterations of the same beer, and vapid 40 word reviews complete with cross tags, links to their custom beer tee link, and the first comment littered with algorithm optimized hashtags.
