Each specialty beer was crafted locally and the winning beers will be brewed and only sold to residents in these areas beginning June 26. The names and beer styles were created and brewed by a small team of local employees at the Columbus, Ohio, and Merrimack, N.H., breweries. In Ohio, the beer choices included: Burnin' Helles, Racer Snake Red and Old Eyepopper and in New England the beer choices included: Demon's Hop Yard IPA, Stone Face Ale and Leaf Peeper Pils (descriptions are below). Now the brewing of Demon's Hop Yard IPA and Burnin' Helles begins and will be available on draught at local bars and restaurants throughout New England and Ohio beginning June 26. Voting ended April 30 and Demon's Hop Yard IPA was selected for New England and Burnin' Helles was selected for Ohio as THE beers of choice to be brewed and available locally to residents. Beginning March 27, adult New England and Ohio residents had the opportunity to go to the Web site to select a local hometown specialty brew that met their own individual tastes. You might call them “hoppy juice bombs.” Suspended yeast and protein acts like a buffer against the bitterness of the hops, kind of like the cooling effect of milk after some spicy hot wings, so the other thing they all have going for them is an innate smoothness that is very appealing on a hot summer day.ĭon’t let the look of it shock you, one sip of these beers and you will become a believer.New Englanders and Ohioans rallied behind their beer of choice by voting for their favorite hometown brew as part of Anheuser-Busch's "You Choose It, We'll Brew It" campaign. The three methods are: 1) Using a yeast strain that does not readily drop to the bottom of the tank 2) Using higher-protein malts like oats and wheat in the malt bill 3) Extreme hopping in the end of boil or dry hopping, which leaves higher than normal hop polyphenols in suspension.įor this reason, there is a good amount of variation among breweries when it comes to flavor profiles within the style, but typically these beers tend to have thick, “chewy” bodies loaded with hop citrus. But these beers are unfiltered on purpose and often look like a nice, freshly squeezed glass of orange juice.īrewers around the country are using different techniques to attain this hazy quality. Most beer you drink is filtered after fermentation to remove suspended yeast and other proteins that would otherwise leave the beer cloudy. Other breweries like Hill Farmstead, Trillium and Tree House were other early adopters of the region, and hazy IPAs eventually became so ubiquitous throughout the New England region that they started to become known as “New England Style IPA” or “Vermont IPA.” As brewers nationwide have looked to capitalize on every version of IPA from here to Neptune over the years, they have most recently seemed to stumble upon this Northern variety and started producing en masse. Head brewer John Kimmich learned about brewing and obtained the yeast strain for this beer while at Vermont Pub & Brewery under Greg Noonan. The style originally grew popular in Vermont with The Alchemist brewery’s most famous beer – Heady Topper – which it has been serving since 2003. It has become so popular that the Brewers Association has now officially recognized “Juicy or Hazy IPA” as an official beer style. Just like the juicy hop flavors of beer, this style has recently exploded into the mouths of many an avid beer fan. In many ways the style personifies the dog days of summer, when the sidewalks are burnin’ and you feel like you can reach out and grab a glass of the humid mist filling the sultry sky. I thoroughly enjoy this style, which looks a bit ugly in the glass but goes down smoothly and features all of the juicy tropical hop characteristics of an IPA without the overwhelming bitterness. That is because I received so many New England-style IPAs in the repertoire of beer samples from my local beer distributors. This year was perhaps a little less bitter than normal. The weather starts to turn warmer, but it also means a lot of work to prepare for the upcoming summer season.
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