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December and January have been nuts, so I’m a little behind on my blogging. Way back in November I brewed what was both the best – and worst – beer of 2015. I very briefly blogged the recipe a few posts ago<\/a>, but the quick version is that it was a classical American-style IPA, with a touch of bittering hops and then 170 g (6 oz) of hops (1:1 mix of centennial & citra) added in the hop-stand. Fermented with “Brett” trois for 12 days, and then kegged.<\/p>\n

My biggest mistake was preparing this beer right-on-time for the keg to be tapped at the same time by brew club<\/a> began its advent exchange. Having a 29-day series of largely high-alcohol, high-body winter beers does not lend itself well to IPA consumption – meaning that this IPA was consumed far more slowly than it should have been. It started off amazing – best beer of the year. By nearly two months later, when the keg finally kicked, it had faded into something far less desirable.<\/p>\n

So how was it (sorry, no pictures)…<\/p>\n

Appearance:<\/b>\u00a0Extremely cloudy, almost orange in colour. Looked a bit like orange juice. Poured with a course white head that faded pretty quickly into a ring of bubbles around the glass. As anyone whose worked with trois before knows, it simply doesn’t flocculate, so clarity only improved slightly as the beer aged.<\/p>\n

Aroma:<\/b>\u00a0Early on the aroma was 100% tropical fruit; papaya with a touch of mango. It was heavenly, and so intense that the room would fill with the aroma as you poured a glass. This faded fast; a month later it was merely a generic, modest fruitiness, with the clear tropical note completely lost.<\/p>\n

Flavour:<\/b>\u00a0Early on the flavour matched the aroma – tropical fruit flavours dominated, with a slight malt backbone and modest hop bitterness to hold everything together. If it wasn’t for the underlying hop bitterness, this would have been like drinking a glass of papaya & mango juice. Personally, I wish it was a little more bitter in order to balance the fruit “sweetness” from the hops a little better, but just a slight boost in bittering would be needed to achieve that. As with the aroma, the flavour did not age well; within a month the clear tropical flavour note had faded to something almost cider-like, with the added ‘bonus’ of also tasting “dead” (for lack of a better descriptor). Both the fresh and aged beer had a lingering hop bitterness.<\/p>\n

Mouthfeel:<\/b>\u00a0Everything an IPA should be – crisp & effervescence, somewhat drying, and with a lingering hop bitterness. The mouthfeel was about the only thing not negatively affected as the beer aged.<\/p>\n

Overall:<\/b>\u00a0When fresh, this was easily the best beer of the year and one of the better IPA’s I’ve made in a while. After a month this was a piddling IPA at best. In the future this would be a beer to prepare for an event – to ensure it disappears quickly – but it is a beer I would love to re-brew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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