Tried this beer tonight, man was it nasty.... Has amazing reviews and I cannot understand.. I love hoppy beers but this was just disgusting, drank 3 sips before I just gave up... Sad but could not do it
Anyone else tried it? Liked it?
Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
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Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Third Eye Brewing
Since I am too lazy to update this every brew...I will update with list of awards
2013 Upper Mississippi Mashout
Gold medal 10A American Pale Ale
Bronze medal 10B American Amber Ale
2012 Upper Mississippi Mash out
Silver medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 National Homebrew Competition First round
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager
Gold Medal 10A American Pale Ale
-3rd place Overall!
Since I am too lazy to update this every brew...I will update with list of awards
2013 Upper Mississippi Mashout
Gold medal 10A American Pale Ale
Bronze medal 10B American Amber Ale
2012 Upper Mississippi Mash out
Silver medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 National Homebrew Competition First round
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager
Gold Medal 10A American Pale Ale
-3rd place Overall!
Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
There are multiple hop kitchen beers. Which was it?
If it was Hop Tart, that's a sour beer. Do you like sours normally? That beer isn't high in IBUs at 30, but 30 IBUs + lacto = sketchy territory in my view. I've never seen it around here to try it, and I'm unsure if I would. Normally sour and bitter don't mix so well. If I made a lacto beer with late hops, the hops would be nothing but dry hops, and it would be about 5 IBUs. You don't need much bittering with sour.
The Super IPA and Oatmeal IPA sound good to me on paper...
If it was Hop Tart, that's a sour beer. Do you like sours normally? That beer isn't high in IBUs at 30, but 30 IBUs + lacto = sketchy territory in my view. I've never seen it around here to try it, and I'm unsure if I would. Normally sour and bitter don't mix so well. If I made a lacto beer with late hops, the hops would be nothing but dry hops, and it would be about 5 IBUs. You don't need much bittering with sour.
The Super IPA and Oatmeal IPA sound good to me on paper...
Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
It was the super IPA and it was just terrible...not sure what kind of hops were in it but they did go well together, maybe it was just a bad keg? The place I was at opened a few months ago so I doubt it was the lines...
If that is what it was supposed to taste like personally I think they failed
If that is what it was supposed to taste like personally I think they failed
Third Eye Brewing
Since I am too lazy to update this every brew...I will update with list of awards
2013 Upper Mississippi Mashout
Gold medal 10A American Pale Ale
Bronze medal 10B American Amber Ale
2012 Upper Mississippi Mash out
Silver medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 National Homebrew Competition First round
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager
Gold Medal 10A American Pale Ale
-3rd place Overall!
Since I am too lazy to update this every brew...I will update with list of awards
2013 Upper Mississippi Mashout
Gold medal 10A American Pale Ale
Bronze medal 10B American Amber Ale
2012 Upper Mississippi Mash out
Silver medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 National Homebrew Competition First round
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager Oktoberfest
2012 Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition
Gold Medal 3B European Amber Lager
Gold Medal 10A American Pale Ale
-3rd place Overall!
Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Agreed. I love sours (probably my favorite range of beer styles right now), and I like IPAs (probably my favorite beer style 5 years ago), but every one of these "hopped sours" I've tried (with maybe one exception), I didn't care for.mashani wrote:\That beer isn't high in IBUs at 30, but 30 IBUs + lacto = sketchy territory in my view.
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Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Super IPA's description says hops are Amarillo, Columbus, Simcoe and Centennial. So it's basically the same hops as Pliney and/or Pliney the Younger.
Malts it says are:
Pale, C-80, Melanoidin, Acidulated, Carapils
Those hops do go together well. The C-80 is more of an English IPA like choice, but I can't imagine that it makes it taste horrible. Assuming they only used enough Acidulated to adjust their mash PH, it should not have any tartness on top of the 99 IBUs they state.
So if it was awful, then that's weird, and I might suspect a bad batch/keg/keg lines/god knows what? But who knows.
If you thought it smelled like cat pee, that was probably the Simcoe, and you might be a Simcoe hater then... I know folks who hate Simcoe for that reason. I don't, I like them, but it's one of those hops that some folks love and others hate. Have you had a know Simcoe beer before or brewed one?
Malts it says are:
Pale, C-80, Melanoidin, Acidulated, Carapils
Those hops do go together well. The C-80 is more of an English IPA like choice, but I can't imagine that it makes it taste horrible. Assuming they only used enough Acidulated to adjust their mash PH, it should not have any tartness on top of the 99 IBUs they state.
So if it was awful, then that's weird, and I might suspect a bad batch/keg/keg lines/god knows what? But who knows.
If you thought it smelled like cat pee, that was probably the Simcoe, and you might be a Simcoe hater then... I know folks who hate Simcoe for that reason. I don't, I like them, but it's one of those hops that some folks love and others hate. Have you had a know Simcoe beer before or brewed one?