“Our team unanimously loved this easy-drinking lager, and are really excited to be able to enjoy it during the summer. “Seconds to Summer was one of our most popular pilot beers in recent memory.” said Jason Perkins, Brewmaster at Allagash. Both beers stemmed from the brewery’s pilot innovation system. Floating Holiday is bright and crisp blonde ale brewed with lemon peel and a pinch of sea salt. distribution footprint starting in May.īrewed with traditional hops from the Czech Republic and fermented with Belgian yeast, Seconds to Summer boasts a refreshingly hoppy flavor that you’ll be sipping all summer long. The duo of beers will be heading widely across the Allagash 19-state plus D.C. Seconds to Summer, a crisp and hoppy lager, and Floating Holiday, a dry and balanced blonde ale with lemon peel and sea salt. is launching two new limited seasonal beers to its portfolio, freshly inspired from its pilot brewery. Allagash upgrades these pilot beers to summer seasonalsĪllagash Brewing Co. Smells Like Freedom as well as Legalize It Lager, a thirst-quenching American Style Lager which was created in collaboration with the National Cannabis Festival, will be available exclusively at this year’s event, taking place in Washington, DC on April 23, 2022. This super drinkable IPA offers a subtle punch of bitterness upfront that fades into a pleasant, palate-coating bitterness that attracitley lingers in the nasal cavity. The hop profile is made up of Columbus, Eureka! & Strata hops with notes of resin, pine, earth, sticky cannabis, and white pepper. DC Brau also wants to Legalize ItĭC Brau, the District’s OG craft brewery, released three of its annual beers, The Citizen, Brau Radler, and Smells Like Freedom, as well two limited edition beers, Legalize It Lager and the specially-branded Loud Brau in honor of the brewery’s upcoming 11 year anniversary.ĭC Brau’s Smells Like Freedom is a big, hop bomb of an IPA provides a medium body that is slightly dried out thanks to the addition of sugar in the brewing kettle. Therefore, they wanted to see if all of that delicious flavor would translate if they simply cut out the larger hop cone from the brewing process (which is what imparts all the bitterness and can generally be the most polarizing part of an IPA).”īubble Stash has an ABV of 6.2% and IBU of 45. In knowing the genetic makeup of a hop, the team knew that the leftover ‘resin’ or ‘pollen’ was where all the essential oils and best flavors from the hop originated. They’re curious, adventuresome and always inventing. “Hop Valley is full of trend-setters who are never satisfied with the status quo. “In terms of why our brewers thought to try this process used in cannabis production with beer, honestly, they didn’t 100% know it would work,” she says. McKenna gives a shout out to Yakima’s Cryo Hops for making Bubble Stash and the subsequent Stash series of beers possible. “The lupulin pollen is the purest essence of the hop that imparts all the delicious flavors and aromas without the residual bitterness that comes from leveraging the whole hop/leafy materials,” says Megan McKenna, Hop Valley Marketing Director.” Hash (Bubble Hash specifically) is created in a similar process where the purest oils are separated from the cannabis plant in an ice water bath.” The folks at Hop Valley took this knowledge of THC and translated it into beer, using the resin from the hops to provide all the wonderfully unique flavors for extreme drinkability without the bitterness. When hops are processed in beer production, there is a sticky resin that gets produced, similar to the cannabis concentrate from THC production (known as Bubble Hash, made popular in the 80s). Hop Valley set out to change that with Bubble Stash – which does not contain cannabis, but is inspired in a different way. A large part of this is due to its location and quirky, laid-back personality, but also because hops and cannabis are very close cousins in terms of their material and make-up.Īnd while weed-inspired beers have become an increasingly popular thing over the last few years, they aren’t always that tasty. Weed culture has always been intertwined with Hop Valley’s vibe. Happy 4/20! … * checks calendar again* … Whoops! How do I do this every year …Īnyway, we shall kick off the Beers to Know this week with beer that’s a worthy tribute to weed culture: Hop Valley’s Bubble Stash.
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