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Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:55 pm
by Stinkfist
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?
Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 1:37 am
by mashani
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...
Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 1:45 pm
by Stinkfist
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
Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 1:57 pm
by swenocha
mashani wrote:\That beer isn't high in IBUs at 30, but 30 IBUs + lacto = sketchy territory in my view.
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.
Re: Fat Tire Hop Kitchen
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 7:44 pm
by mashani
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?