The great harvesting of the hops is here, and what better way to celebrate than to introduce our newest Irrational beer, Hubris! Hubris is a classic American pale ale–pale malt with hints of caramel, balanced with American style hops–but makes use of the technique called “wet hopping.” When a particular hop is ready to harvest, a hop farm hand-picks the large hop cones from the vines, drops them immediately in a box, and ships them overnight to us. These fresh, un-processed hops still have moisture on them from the farm, and have optimal fresh aromas and flavors. I had Hubris fermented and waiting in the fermentor for the wet hops to arrive. Once they got here, we immediately bagged them, threw them into a fermentor, and transferred the beer over the hops to help extract the goodness.
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Bill G says:
What would REALLY be helpful is to post a CURRENT list of coop made beers and other’s beers you have on tap. Do it once a week, or do it each time you change a coop made beer out. Somthing so that those of us that don’t live near the pub a clue about what’s on tap rather than having to call. Or send out an email or tweet or something.
Dana says:
Thanks for the feedback Bill! You are absolutely right about keeping the website up to date, so we’ve added a picture of our beer chalk board on the “Drink” page. Our commercial beer rotates out so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up with a fully updated list. However, we do send out a monthly newsletter with the commercial tap focus and post the new house beers to facebook, twitter, and blog posts. I hope this helps!
J says:
Tried the Hubris last week and it was amazingly delicious. Strong work guys!