Single HOP Series - El Dorado

Bottle. Pours a hazy amber orange with a tan head that dissipates to the edges and laces. Aroma has notes of pine and bitter potpourri backed by an earthy grain. Flavor more of a grass and pine combination up front with some potpourri and a light grain backing.

Bomber from Wine & Cheese in Clayton’ MO. Pours clear copper with a beige head. Aroma is very fruity with caramel. Med body. Flavor is very fruity/floral, but it develops earthy bitter in the finish.

Pours an amber-gold, with small head. Floral, citrus aroma, with some breadiness. Flavor is very fruity--citrus and bitter, pine hops. There’s a bitter, malty-bready finish.

Draft. Rich amber beer with a cream head. Earth and citrus aroma with pine. Earth and spice flavor with citrus and pine. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Spice and earth lingers with pine and grapefruit.

22oz bomber pours with a clear deep copper body that supports an inch tall tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up sweet malts that have a red apple note mixing with brown sugar and sweet white grape juice. Interesting. The taste has some nice yet modest flavor hops that quickly move into more and more hop bitterness. The hops come across as a rather vague flavor that’s sort of citrus sort of pine resin sort of earthy. It also gets into a cherry hard candy note as well as mild red apple sweet esters. Again, interesting. None of this really goes together too well either.