ŽETVA I & II
Nova Runda in Zabok, Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia 🇭🇷
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Series Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Wait, since when do skeletons have beer bellies?
Hop is one of 4 basic beer ingredients and most beers cannot be made without it. Breweries mostly use hop in the form of pellets or dried cones, but there is one more option - when it is freshly picked and added to the brew within 24 hours after the harvest. This production method is called wet hop / fresh hop. Wet hop beer is the rawest and most powerful form of enjoying hops. Adding fresh hop is somewhat difficult to control during the production stage, so it's hard to predict the final bitterness (IBU).˙
Žetva presents our interpretation of wet hop beer and we brew it once a year, during the period when co-ops in the area harvest their hops. Luckily for us, the world's fourth biggest hop grower - Slovenia - is practically in the neighbourhood. It's easy for us to drop by and get some fresh hop, and there's also a hop co-op in Bački Petrovac in Serbia. Žetva is always different, because each year we use a different variety of fresh hop. In the 2017 version, we used Slovenian variety Aurora, which used to be grown in Croatia as well (in Gregurevci near the town of Križevci). To find out which hop variety we're going to use next, you'll just have to wait for the following Harvest. ;)
Our bitterest beer, for sure. If that's what rocks your boat, try not to miss the next release.
Style: American pale ale
Hops: Depends on the harvest (Fresh Hop 2017 - Aurora)
Hop is one of 4 basic beer ingredients and most beers cannot be made without it. Breweries mostly use hop in the form of pellets or dried cones, but there is one more option - when it is freshly picked and added to the brew within 24 hours after the harvest. This production method is called wet hop / fresh hop. Wet hop beer is the rawest and most powerful form of enjoying hops. Adding fresh hop is somewhat difficult to control during the production stage, so it's hard to predict the final bitterness (IBU).˙
Žetva presents our interpretation of wet hop beer and we brew it once a year, during the period when co-ops in the area harvest their hops. Luckily for us, the world's fourth biggest hop grower - Slovenia - is practically in the neighbourhood. It's easy for us to drop by and get some fresh hop, and there's also a hop co-op in Bački Petrovac in Serbia. Žetva is always different, because each year we use a different variety of fresh hop. In the 2017 version, we used Slovenian variety Aurora, which used to be grown in Croatia as well (in Gregurevci near the town of Križevci). To find out which hop variety we're going to use next, you'll just have to wait for the following Harvest. ;)
Our bitterest beer, for sure. If that's what rocks your boat, try not to miss the next release.
Style: American pale ale
Hops: Depends on the harvest (Fresh Hop 2017 - Aurora)
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6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap @Angry Moose beershop, Čakovec. Enjoyed at home, courtesy of Beer2Go plastic bottle. Cloudy golden pour. No head, no lacing... I blame the packaging for this. Anyway - herbal, grainy nose, mild citrus tart. Some wet grass notes. Medium body, soft carbonation. Lost a bit of carbonation due to plastic packaging, unfortunately. Moderately thick mouthfeel, smooth texture. Taste is nicely balanced, low to medium bitterness accompanied by subtle malt sweetness and citrus tart. Aroma is quite basic but it works well. Grains, herbs, wet grass, citrus and pine. Slightly sticky mouthfeel, mild peppery notes in the aftertaste. Medium lasting finish. Overall, simple and lightweight brew. Decent enough but it doesn't hold a candle to some of their top brews like C4 and Fireball. Still, enjoyable and refreshing.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Sep 2018
at 22:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Craft Room, Zagreb. Pours hazy golden, medium creamy white head. Good lacing. Short lasting flowery hoppy aroma. Herbal. Straight forward strong dry bitter finish. Medium bodied. Not much going on except bitterness in finish. Interesting experiment, but frankly I see no point in brews like this.
Tried
from Draft
at
Craft Room
on 17 Dec 2017
at 13:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap at Fakin Zagreb. Unclear orange/golden coloured, small white head, mild flowery nose. Moderate bitter herbal hoppy, slightly flowery and yeasty with light caramel notes. Pretty strong bitterness in the finish and aftertaste, even maybe too bitter but good brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Oct 2017
at 06:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Unclear, golden-orange colored, medium+ white frothy, quire lasting head. Aroma is quite spicy and herbal hoppy, bit malt and some yeast, bit citrus fruit. Taste is medium sweet pale malt, light caramel, medium+ spicy and herbal hoppy notes, fresh herbal hops, some yeast, strong & everlasting bitterness and ever-so dry. Medium bodied, average carbonation. Mellow bitterness but still too overpowering, maybe next year decrease a couple hundred IBUs and it could be the best Aurora single hop! (on tap, All In, Zagreb)
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Oct 2017
at 09:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Woody's. Misty golden body, whitr head. Weak but nice little soft aroma, bready touch, citric and flowery too. Taste...whoa. Er... Yeah. Aurora. And in a nice way aroma-wise, citrus, floweey herbal, earthy, with a huge, huge bitterness. The soft, relatively neutral malt background provides some respite from (and support to) the comparatively enormous bitterness. Though honestly, it's well integrated enough not to irritate as some technically far less bitter beers. Addictive stuff for us bitterness lovers. The aftertaste, herbal-bitter, lasts forever... This is the cleanest, by far, Nova Runda beer I've seen in ages, so props for that too. Glad to have tried, will likely do that again.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Sep 2017
at 11:13
7/10
On tap at Horvati bar, Knežija. Shared with Višnja 666. Murky golden, off-white head. Aurora immediately present. Fresh and grassy, also leaves. Moderate to heavy bitterness. Malts present. Medium body, moderate carbonation, moderate lasting, but heavily dry finish. 748414=3.7
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Sep 2017
at 10:40