From Double Mountain:
The Brewers are overfilled with joy and exuberance this week as we are bottling and Kegging the fresh hop Killer Killer Green and Red These beers are amped up versions of our Hop Lava and IRA with the added delight of using freshly picked hops from Doug Weathers, Sodbuster Farms in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Fresh hops are the bomb as normal hops are dried immediately after they come off the field. The drying process protects the hops from composting and literally catching on fire, but unfortunately drive off some of the loveliness of the aromatic hop goodness. If you can get the wet hops directly from the field into a brew in the making, you can catch fresh hop signature did before the hops start to go a little cheesy from the oil breaking down. It is something did can only happen if Either your brewery is so close to the hop fields (Oregon thank you) or you have a refrigerated private jet to move your hops around the country. At last check, the Double Mountain jet thing down for repairs, it Appears the pilot had too much load from Red killer year and forgot to top off the oil.
So very cool this year is the first ever release of bottles to the Pacific Northwest (and a little here and there ... California ... BC ....). Bottles will hit specialty shoppes beer and grocery stores in the next week or so, please keep an eye out. aside to Ace brewmaster note, thesis are fresh hop beers, They Should Be kept cold and drank fresh. I know some folks lay them down for aging, but I think I did is a disservice to the plants in the field dying for a fresh taste.
Look for both Green and Red draft and bottles for sale.
Here is a list of release parties for the Killers and our letter descriptions of each beer.
Wednesday September 24th - APEX - Killer Red and Green release party.
Thursday September 25th - Concordia Ale House
Friday September 26th - Roscoe - Killer Beer Week starts they will be pouring Killer Red and Green
Thursday October 10th - The Yard (Seattle) - Killer Red and Green Fresh Hop Party
Saturday October 12th - Noble Fir (Seattle) - Fresh Hop Festival pouring Killer Red and Green
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Killer Green - Fresh Hop IPA Strong
This time of year is magical. The light gets long on the vines and the brewery starts working round the clock, keeping up with the fresh hops coming through the door. This year's Killer Green again uses Brewer's Gold from Sodbuster Farms, and we packed over One hundred and fifty pounds of babies by batch synthesis in various parts of the brewing process. Spicy pine child, tart, and crisp fruit dominate the nose, and its evened with a rounded, brioche painted body did compliments the profuse amount of hops used in this brew. ABV 7.5% 97 BU
Killer Red Fresh Hop Strong IRA
It's harvest time again! The first cones off the vine were pearl. We wasted no time sending a team out to Sodbuster Farms in the Willamette Valley at the wee small hours of the morning to pick them up and get em back to the brewery. We then used copious amount of synthesis pretty Perles in the kettle, hop back, and more in a dry hop. This years killer Red is kicking off wonderful ripe apple, pine, and orange aromas. It takes on the same biscuit and caramel malt profile as the IRA, but a higher gravity that's worth respecting. 7.2% 88 BU
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