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Beer of the Month January '24: Knotted Root Brewing
We’re starting off the new year with a fairly new (they will be celebrating their 5th anniversary in July of this year) brewery out of the mountains of Colorado. Knotted Root is the brainchild of Chris Marchio, who started home brewing in college in Vermont around the time that it was becoming well known for its hoppy, unfiltered IPAs. The love of the process led him to Central Washington University to study brewing and fermentation science, and eventually a job brewing at Anderson Valley Brewing. After this, he relocated to Colorado in 2014 to become Assistant Brewer at Fiction Beer Company, followed by a Head Brewer position at Joyride Brewing, where he continued crafting his approach towards unfiltered beers. With Knotted Root he and Head Brewer Connor Reeves focus on hoppy ales and make some of the best NE-Style IPAs I’ve tried recently. Cheers! Between The Light Unfiltered Double Dry Hopped DIPA 8.6% ABV Smooth and juicy palate with flavors of stone fruits, pineapple, mango, and orange juice $7.99 per can Citra and Amarillo Hops. Malted Oats and Flaked Wheat Beyond Description Unfiltered IPA 7% ABV Pale gold with a thin foam. A great entry into hazy for fans of traditional IPAs. Resinous hoppiness balanced with bright tropical and citrus flavors. $7.99 per can Simcoe and NZ Rakau Hops. Flaked Oats Taylor Ham, Egg and Cheese, Salt, Pepper, Ketchup Unfiltered Double Dry Hopped DIPA 8% ABV Gold in color with a fluffy foam. This juicy, velvety, mimosa like DIPA bursts out of the glass with flavors of POG juice, ruby red grapefruit, kiwi, and mango with a moderate piney hop finish. $7.99 per can Motueka, Hallertau, and Vic Secret Hops Thick Fruit Medley Goo Unfiltered Smoothie Style Berliner Weisse 6.9% ABV Amber in color with little to no head. This sticky mouth coating beer is tart and rich with decadent flavors of lime sherbet, strawberry, sweet tarts, lemonheads, and kiwi. $8.99 per can Milk sugar, guava, pineapple, passionfruit, raspberry, strawberry, mango, and lime. Conditioned on Madagascar vanilla beans and double dry hopped with Citra hops
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March Beer Of The Month
Cellarmaker Brewing If there’s one thing we love at PlumpJack, it’s establishing new relationships with local breweries to expand our selection of the freshest of the fresh from the localest of the local; and we are always excited to shine our spotlight on hometown heroes. Cellarmaker Brewing, from here in San Francisco, is in our opinion one of the best breweries in the bay. To coincide with bringing them into the fold, we have expanded our cold storage to fit all of your beer club selections. Why is this important? Well, you may have noticed a lack of hoppy beers in our beer club as of late. So let me lay down a fact for you all: hoppy beers need cold storage. Will the beer spoil without it? Not exactly, you can still drink it; but the flavors and aromas will vastly differ from the brewer’s intent. Time has a huge impact on the intricacies of the hops’ flavors, and the longer a hoppy beer is stored, the more it loses from its layers and complexities. Storing beer at room or even cellar temperature multiplies this aging effect almost 7 fold. There are other factors such as oxygen levels, of which Cellarmaker’s canning system excels at, but lets not get too far into those weeds. This month you have a mixed 6 pack of pints. A Lager, a Pale Ale, three single Hazy IPAs, and a double Hazy IPA. Enjoy the fresh hops and fruitiness of these beers, and please - keep them cold and drink them soon! Cheers! Sam Gold Stallion Hops: Crystal This California pilsner is brewed with low colored Canadian pilsner malt and a small amount of rice for an extremely light and crisp pilsner. We keep the malt restrained to showcase a judicious hopping of citrusy and spicy Michigan and Oregon grown Crystal hops. Refreshing as can be! Beer style: California Pilsner 5.2% abv, Serve 38°F Emerald Eyes Hops: Strata, Riwaka & Talus The world needs more pale ale. You should drink more pale ale. And that’s why we are stoked to rebrew this very new pale, sessionable and aromatic brew. Hopped with a unique and modern combination of Riwaka, Strata and Talus, Emerald Eyes is incredibly soft with aromas of peachy stonefruit, white grape and guava and underlying notes of coastal pine and lime. Beer style: Hazy Pale Ale 5.7% abv, Serve 45° F Wizard Hand Of Evil Hops: Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin & Idaho 7 Wizard Hand of Evil is a sinisterly drinkable IPA with aromas of just ripened pineapple, tangy OG Kush and Bartlett pears. It has a balanced malt profile and just enough bitterness on the back to make you go back for another sip. The all-seeing eye that sees! Hops: Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin & Idaho 7 Beer style: Hazy IPA 6.8% abv, Serve 45° F Cloudy With A Chance Of Doobis Hops: Citra The Dobis family is dedicated to brews made with 100 % Citra. Our tap list, like this Bay Area weather, is changing all the time. However, we love Citra so much, there is usually a chance of Dobis. This Dobis has an expressive yeast to soften & add even more tropical fruity flavors to your experience. We enjoy the aromas of passionfruit, mango & pineapple. Beer style: Hazy IPA 6.8% abv, Serve 45° F Wicked Juicy Hops: Simcoe, Citra & Galaxy In Northern California we say HELLA, but in Boston they say WICKED… We first brewed Wicked Juicy back in 2015 as our 1st attempt at creating an IPA in the style of the great hop-forward brewers in the Northeast. Now it is a favorite! We make this one with Simcoe, Citra & Galaxy hops along with a simple grist of pale malt & oats & ferment it warm with an expressive yeast. It’s totally unfiltered and juicy AF! Beer style: Hazy IPA 7% abv, Serve 45° F Captain Terp Hops: Simcoe, Enigma, Galaxy, Citra, Centennial and Idaho 7 Trade in your phaser for a dab rig and get ready to hit warp 3. Captain Terp is brewed with oats for a nice fluffy, nebulous mouthfeel that compliments the expressive yeast. Add to that an over the top hopping of Simcoe, Enigma, Galaxy, Citra, Centennial and Idaho 7 resulting in a robust, juicy ale; an apogee of tropical and bright terpene aromas. Beer style: Hazy Double IPA 8% abv, Serve 45° F
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