Hop Sac 2013 - First Leaf
Ruhstaller Beer in Sacramento, California, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.93
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This one is special. There will never be another one like it. Bottled within is the first result of hundreds of hours of hard, backbreaking work by my family and friends, family members that consistently exceeded my expectations, friends, some new, some old, equally committed. Hand in hand together we tended to the little* hop yard that could.
In a season when the dust mites were a persistent threat, decimating some other local hop yards, and an unusually dry winter made planting our rhizomes precarious, this farm and yard at exit 69 off I-80 proved what the Sacramento Valley is made of . . . showing why, when quality, not yield, was the measure of a successful hop yard, we were the largest hop growing region in the world!
In a season when the dust mites were a persistent threat, decimating some other local hop yards, and an unusually dry winter made planting our rhizomes precarious, this farm and yard at exit 69 off I-80 proved what the Sacramento Valley is made of . . . showing why, when quality, not yield, was the measure of a successful hop yard, we were the largest hop growing region in the world!
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Over-ripe orange malt and grassy lemon peel aroma. Golden yellow with minimal head. Funky orange malt and moderately bitter grass and lemon peel flavor. Unique.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2014
at 15:57
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Burlap-wrapped bottle: Clear, deep gold with a frothy white head. Sweet, earthy, grass and grapefruit aroma. Taste is slightly vegetal, malty, piney hops... Might be a case of the power of suggestion, but I get the mushroom flavor as noted by brokensail as well. Different, but quite pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2014
at 06:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber shared by Marcus. Pours brilliant gold with a slight, transient white head. Aroma is a very different green leafy perhaps earthy hop. Med body or better. Flavor is very green herb/veg. Finish is that plus earth. Very different.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2013
at 13:18