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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 4346730, member: 2500"] 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 [URL='https://untappd.com/b/hop-farm-brewing-company-king-lumi/4193203']King Lumi[/URL] 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. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2022-07-09 16.28.08.png"]77472[/ATTACH] 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. [/QUOTE]

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