LOVE YOUR ROOTS
Love Your Roots is a new series of hop focused beers we are using to highlight new hop varieties, farming partners, brokers and new and innovative hop products or techniques. Below is a packaging log of the story and more detailed information on each of the releases.
Love Your Roots #6
The sixth release in our Love Your Roots IPA series features southern hemisphere hops from NZ Hops Ltd. Featuring Nelson Sauvin™ and Nectaron® sing in this beer imparting deep dank, white wine, tropical and stone fruit. Centrifuged for clarity, this is crispy, clean and delicious expression of NZ hops laid over a light WC body.
West Coast IPA, Nelson Sauvin™ and Nectaron® Rahr 2-Row, American Ale Yeast. Centrifuged for clarity. Canned 08/24/2023.
Love Your Roots Pils #1
Love Your Roots Pilsner #1 features a brand new hop out of Germany called Amira. This hop exhibits some serious dank notes, reminiscent of American hops but has a background lemony, citrusy note for a slightly modern take on a pils style without pushing into the extremely high levels of citrus and dank found in a West Coast Pils or Pale Ale. Pilsner malt, Amira Hops, lager yeast.
Dry Hopped Pils, German Amira Hops, Weyermann® Premium Pils, House Lager Yeast, Centrifuged & filtered for clarity. Canned 08/10/2023.
Love Your Roots IPA #5
The fifth release in the Love Your Roots IPA series features a hop we have been a fan of for some time now and incorporate into several of our seasonal release IPAs - Strata®. We source this from our friends at Indie Hops based out of Portland, OR and this years selected lot was grown by Coleman Farms. We take our selected variety and then wanted to experiment with a new concentrated hop product developed by Crosby Hops called CGX™ Cryogenic Lupulin Pellets. CGX™ pellets have the vegetative matter removed from the hops and concentrate the lupulin and oils for a pungent and impactful hop pellet.
Bright strawberry, kiwi fruit and a touch of dank and bright clean citrus shine really showcasing what we look for in this hop variety. This is why we travel to Oregon and Washington every year to hand select the best lots we can find that exhibit the finest qualities of each variety.
West Coast IPA, Strata® and Strata® CGX™ Rahr 2-Row, American Ale Yeast. Centrifuged for clarity. Canned 06/29/2023.
Love Your Roots IPA #4
For the fourth release in the series we wanted to highlight some of the hops we use from New Zealand from our friends at Freestyle Farms. This recipe is featuring two of our favorites Nelson Sauvin and Moteuka and introducing a new up and coming variety Peacherine. These hops exhibit a fruity character unlike anything we’ve found in American grown hops and we wanted a beer to showcase just that.
Bright overripe fruit, with some diesel and dank from the Nelson and a light lime from the Motueka make for a complex, fruit forward exhibition of this New Zealand grown trio.
West Coast IPA, NZ Grown Nelson, Motueka and Peacherine. Rahr 2-Row & American Ale yeast. Fined but not filtered. Canned 04/20/23.
Love Your Roots IPA #3
For this iteration of LYR we wanted to explore Cryo Pop and the idea of survivable compounds in beer - meaning hop aroma compounds that survive the boil and fermentation processes and have their flavor carry through to finished beer. These pellets are a concentrated cryo product that is made with a blend of hops to encourage that staying power from kettle through finished beer.
We have released several beers in the past using Hop Breeding Company (HBC) experimental hop varieties and we had the opportunity to use HBC 638 for dry hop to explore a new experimental hop in conjunction with the use of Cryo Pop. There is unfortunately a typo on the label that lists 683 as the variety so for accuracy we are confirming it is HBC 638 in the beer.
West Coast IPA, CryoPop & HBC 638. Rahr 2-Row, American Ale yeast, fined but not filtered for clarity. Canned 03/16/23.
Love Your Roots IPA #2
Love Your Roots #2 is featuring our partnership with Brewers Supply Group and is brewed with 100% Idaho Gem hops from Gooding Farms. Diane Gooding was recently at the brewery and enjoyed a few beers and conversation with us so when discussing what we were going to brew with BSG selecting this hop to be the feature of this collaboration that was the clear choice.
This iteration is the first unfiltered IPA in the series but utilizes Kölsch yeast instead of our normal expressive haze yeast for a different profile altogether. The beer is unfiltered and unfined so it remains hazy in appearance but still crisp and clean from the cool fermentation temperatures.
Idaho Gem is used in kettle and dry hop additions so this IPA is a true expression of a single variety. One of the newer varieties out of Idaho we didn’t have any experience with this hop so wanted to brew a single hop IPA to really dig in and see what it has to offer.
Unfiltered IPA hopped with Idaho Gem and brewed with Rahr 2-Row, Kölsch Yeast, unfined and unfiltered. Packaged 03/16/23.
Love Your Roots IPA #1
The first in our new series of hop focused beers features one of our friends and direct supplier Segal Ranch hops. We met John Segal and his passionate crew when we were on the quest for the best Cascade hops we could find. They built a reputation for having amazing “High Oil Cascades” which we now use in many of our beers, including all of the BAWK! series of IPAs.
When we were out selecting hops last Fall John brought out a new variety they were developing in partnership with Fast Fashion in Seattle called “Anchovy.” When we smelled the hops there was a unique lime aroma coupled with watermelon and juicy fruit. We already knew we wanted to feature their Cascade and this seemed like a great compliment to showcase a single farm for our first release in this new series.
So the beer came together, with the help of Fast Fashion supplying a couple boxes of Anchovy, we present Love Your Roots #1: West Coast IPA hopped with Segal Ranch High Oil Cascade and Anchovy hops. Rahr 2-Row, American Ale Yeast, fined but not filtered for clarity. Packaged 02/23/23
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