First, look at the meringue head on this sucker and that's not from too much carbonation! 1/2" of this stayed with the beer to the end.
This is a fine ass beer in many respects but it just tastes good. It's light but tasty, has the perfect amount of bitterness and the taste is pretty much the same all the way through. The bitterness is somewhat different to me and I don't know if this is the correct word for it but I'll use it any way.....tart. I mean this in only a good way. The dictionary will make bitter sound worse than tart but when talking about beer, I think tart describes this better. Think of lemon tart...you don't say lemon bitter, do you?
But, I digest
It's very evident that the hop usage with late minute additions and hop standing show up in this beer. I can't say I've had any like this so I feel confident saying I definitely see the difference. The only thing I'm not yet 100% sure of yet is the aroma with hop standing vs. dry hopping. This has a mild, sweet aroma and not a very hoppy one and based on my massive dry hopped beers, I'm still thinking the dry hopping may add more aroma. But, in defense of this beer, I'm not sure it's supposed to have mega aroma.The only complaint I can give this beer is it's all gone. Roger, thanks for sharing this one and opening my eyes to hop standing. Tomorrow we'll do a beer with a mini hop stand that we hope is half this good.
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