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storrsroars said:
This is a beer where I'm scratching my head wondering what they were going for. One of Pgh's top breweries, have enjoyed other offerings I've had. This is a fairly high-rated wheat beer with passionfruit, orange, and guava. The three fruits combine to create one murky vaguely citrusry but flat note. Seems a case of Brew Gentlemen fanboys doing the ratings, or my personal taste preferences are completely out of vogue these days.

This is one of a handful of Pittsburgh beers I meant to leave at my brother's house for him and my godson to enjoy, but forgot to take out of the car, so I'll be reviewing a few in the coming couple of weeks as I'll have to drink them all myself, lol.

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I totally avoid passionfruit and guava.
 
Dove said:
The brewer tweaked his process for this one the last 2 times he made it. Upped the aromatic level and flavors. Total improvement over the excellent original version.
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I knew nothing about Marlowe except what I read here. But I'm looking forward to the rest of the 4-pack. Taste and texture both winners. TBOMK nothing like this being brewed around Pgh.
 
storrsroars said:
This is a beer where I'm scratching my head wondering what they were going for. One of Pgh's top breweries, have enjoyed other offerings I've had. This is a fairly high-rated wheat beer with passionfruit, orange, and guava. The three fruits combine to create one murky vaguely citrusry but flat note. Seems a case of Brew Gentlemen fanboys doing the ratings, or my personal taste preferences are completely out of vogue these days.

This is one of a handful of Pittsburgh beers I meant to leave at my brother's house for him and my godson to enjoy, but forgot to take out of the car, so I'll be reviewing a few in the coming couple of weeks as I'll have to drink them all myself, lol.

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how fresh is that? I find some stuff just flattens out massively after 2-3 weeks. Maybe this is just an age problem, and not a beer problem?
 
pepband99 said:
how fresh is that? I find some stuff just flattens out massively after 2-3 weeks. Maybe this is just an age problem, and not a beer problem?
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couldn't tell you. they label 'best by', not when canned. but bought at a high turnover store and other BG beers I've bought there were fine

probably just not my thing this time.
 
Question for the very knowledgeable... how often do microbrewers simply change up the hops used in a beer to something different, yet keep the same name?

Asking as I'm currently drinking a King Lumi from Hop Farm here in Pgh. On the can it says it's Citra and El Dorado. On the Untapped site it says Mosaic and Strata. The rest of the copy, "form a smooth and tropical mouthfeel with hints of mango and ripe pineapple" is the same on both my can and the site. My beer was canned last month so I have to imagine citra and el dorado are the current recipe. Yet I cannot imagine I'm tasting the same beer that was reviewed on Untapped or other beer review sites.

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In coffee, it wasn't all that uncommon to use different farms and sometimes different regions entirely to maintain a popular coffee or espresso blend's profile when supply from the original sources was iffy. But you wouldn't hear of changing out a bean noted for cocoa & raisin notes for a bean noted for floral or bergamot. The beans were generally always in the same cultivar family.

Given Mosaic is generally "all-around fruitier" than Citra, and Citra tends to be more bitter, matching El Dorado with Citra would seems to imply something a whole lot more tropical than the Mosaic/Strata combo, which should have more berry notes to go with mango/citrus. But I never tried that version to compare.

Anyway, is this practice applied widely? I admit I've never really paid attention to stuff like this, but it was hard to miss this time.

As far as the King Lumi itself goes, nothing to write home about. A decent, but not noteworthy NEIPA you'd drink if you ordered it, but nothing remarkable about it to urge you to order a second.
 
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storrsroars said:
Question for the very knowledgeable... how often do microbrewers simply change up the hops used in a beer to something different, yet keep the same name?

Asking as I'm currently drinking a King Lumi from Hop Farm here in Pgh. On the can it says it's Citra and El Dorado. On the Untapped site it says Mosaic and Strata. The rest of the copy, "form a smooth and tropical mouthfeel with hints of mango and ripe pineapple" is the same on both my can and the site. My beer was canned last month so I have to imagine citra and el dorado are the current recipe. Yet I cannot imagine I'm tasting the same beer that was reviewed on Untapped or other beer review sites.

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In coffee, it wasn't all that uncommon to use different farms and sometimes different regions entirely to maintain a popular coffee or espresso blend's profile when supply from the original sources was iffy. But you wouldn't hear of changing out a bean noted for cocoa & raisin notes for a bean noted for floral or bergamot. The beans were generally always in the same cultivar family.

Given Mosaic is generally "all-around fruitier" than Citra, and Citra tends to be more bitter, matching El Dorado with Citra would seems to imply something a whole lot more tropical than the Mosaic/Strata combo, which should have more berry notes to go with mango/citrus. But I never tried that version to compare.

Anyway, is this practice applied widely? I admit I've never really paid attention to stuff like this, but it was hard to miss this time.

As far as the King Lumi itself goes, nothing to write home about. A decent, but not noteworthy NEIPA you'd drink if you ordered it, but nothing remarkable about it to urge you to order a second.
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I would say they don‘t normally make that change unless it is a “rotating” series where the hops constantly change. Aside from that making that change would be very unusual.
 
Last night and again tonight we’ve got The Gobshites. So of course Guinness is the beer of choice for Celtic Punk. It’s basically a light beer anyway. Very sessionable.
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Kent Falls’ flagship pils, The Hollow, aged for a few months in their oak foeder, brewed to mark their 7th anniversary. The oak and some spice come through on the finish. Glad I was able to get hands on this one.

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I'm enjoying this today along with some other samplings.

Newer brewery near where I live on the gulf coast. Only been open a year but every beer they've brewed has been spot on for that style. Got a few friends who geek out more than I do on the whole process and they're fans too. I'm much simpler with either figuring it tastes good or doesn't taste good for any given style.



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Just got back from lower upstate NY. Took a chance on a 4-pack from a Schenectady brewery called Frog Alley. The Mohop #5 NEIPA was damned tasty. With citra and mosaic.

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Dove said:
Just got back from lower upstate NY. Took a chance on a 4-pack from a Schenectady brewery called Frog Alley. The Mohop #5 NEIPA was damned tasty. With citra and mosaic.

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"Lower upstate NY" is a geographical reference I haven't heard before. What area of NY does that encompass? Is this more Hudson Valley, Capitol Region, Southern TIer???
 
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Chin Diesel said:
"Lower upstate NY" is a geographical reference I haven't heard before. What area of NY does that encompass? Is this more Hudson Valley, Capitol Region, Southern TIer???
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My mom's side is from what I call true upstate. North of Glens Falls. Lake Champlain area. Lower upstate is south of that. I guess the way to Buffalo is the finger lakes region.
 
The trip home had us seconds from Clocktown Brewing in Thomaston. What a facility. We had a pie and downed two brewski. Not the pictured one, tho. It is a lighter-bodied glass of tastiness.
 

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So I'm at a burger joint and having my first ever Heady Topper. I get asked if I want a glass, which I find odd because this isn't some slummy drink out of a can place. I get the can and it says "drink from the can". I read the fine print to find out why.

Sorry. very good beer, but that's some pretentious BS.

Ftr, I had a couple sips from can, but 90% of it from a pint glass. I must be a Philistine as I preferred the glass.
 
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