5 Hoppy Beers to Try Now
Every once in a while, gazing out at the world of beer, it's hard not to throw one's hands up in the air and cry, "Good gracious, what wild fantasies these madmen have wrought!" How, for instance, is one supposed to choose between a beer made with yeast cultured from prehistoric whale fossils (Lost Rhino Brewing Company's recently announced Bone Dusters Paleo Ale) and one that includes bull testicles (Wynkoop Brewing's Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout)? In Oregon, an intrepid brewer has supposedly fermented a concoction using yeast culled from his own beard (Rogue's Beard Beer; no offense to brewer John Maier, but,blech). In Canada, a clutch of intergalactically minded marketers have launched a crisp Klingon brew for Star Trek kooks (Federation Beer's Warnog).
Faced with all this, it's important to remember that beer, when you come right down to it, only requires four ingredients. Organs from unfortunate bulls or prehistoric whale bones really don't come into it. Water, a starch (typically malted barley), yeast and hops are all you need. And if you ask me, the coolest of that quartet is the hops.
啤酒花是啤酒花植物的女性花朵。啤酒花看起来像小，绿色，叶形松果，而且，当在酿造过程中使用时，有助于啤酒的香气，风味和稳定性（由于某些抗菌性能）。有任何数量的菌株，每个菌株可以为所得啤酒贡献不同的特征。酿酒商最常使用跳跃菌株的组合，但越来越多的“单跳”啤酒现在正在调高，他们是一个迷人的类别。
So, before diving into the weirder depths of the beer world—like smoked-goat-brain ales (Dock Street Brewing's new Walker Pale Ale)—you might want to check out the range of influences that hops, one of beer's basic ingredients, can have.
Anchor Steam Brekle's Brown
Citra hops, the strain that Anchor Steam uses for this brown ale, tend to give distinctive tropical-fruit notes—think guava and passion fruit. Three Floyds Zombie Dust, if you can find it, is another all-Citra beer, and a great one at that.
Deschutes新鲜挤压的IPA
A combination of Mosaic, Citra and Nugget hops gives this IPA a particularly potent citrus character of tangerine, grapefruit and orange.
Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA
Simcoe hops give a particularly piney character to beer, along with some citrus and/or tree-fruit notes. Weyerbacher's Double Simcoe is about as Simcoe as you can get.
安德森谷酿造蛇蛇奥丁'IPA
哥伦布和啤酒花都用在这er, but it's the Columbus strain that provides Hop Ottin's distinctive earthy, resiny notes.
Brooklyn Brewery Sorachi Ace
This is a saison-style beer brewed using the Japanese-developed Sorachi Ace hops. Lemon, lemon peel, lemongrass—it's hard not to notice the effect.