A big thank you to Northgate Brewing for making wort and hosting us for the tasting it was a pretty epic evening! Listed bellow is the list of what was tasted and my personal tasting notes.
- Nelson Sav. : Slight white wine. Fruit.
- Motueka: Slight cirtus flavor.
- Rakau: Plesant, not super bitter. Cirtus and fruit.
- Waimea: Strange and intense fruit and citrus flavors, pine finish.
- Wakatu: Clean citrus/lime flavors.
- Galaxy: Nice tropical fruit flavors
- Amarillo: Smells like Something off. Jules says it smells/tastes like Buttercups paws. Nice citrus flavors.
- Equinox: Cirtus tropical flavors.
- Jarrylo: Great hoppy fruit favor.
- Zythos: Love the fruit pine balance.
- El Dorado: More fruit that orange citurs than expected
- Azacca:Tropical fruit… yes please.
- Saaz: Classic Saaz… I mean fugle.
- Pilgram: Something wrong, berry but off flavors… cheese? old hops? Yup.
- Ahtanum: Way more berry and fruit than citrus.
- Warrior: Fruit but not great.
- Brewers Gold: Smokey and blackberry. Something wrong with the smoke…
- Horizon: Cheesy aroma, clean bittering flavor.
- CTZ: Tastes like CTZ.
- Chinook: Acetaldehyde
- Simcoe: No cat pee, surprisingly good.
RT @NordeastBrewers: 2015 Single Hop Tasting Gallery http://t.co/rj3Ud4WjMs
@NordeastBrewers A huge thanks @northgatebrew @AdamLikesBeer @NorthGate_Barb @BSGJuno @BSGHandCraft for helping make this happen.
RT @NordeastBrewers: 2015 Single Hop Tasting Gallery http://t.co/rj3Ud4WjMs
double thumbs up! Yeah…that’s right!