Name: Born Once more Yesterday
Brewing Company: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Location: Petaluna, CA
Style: Pale Ale – American
ABV: 7.2%

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We've discovered that the Lagunitas brewers are part time alchemists… they've figured out how to keep wet hops wet all freakin' year long! Built-in Again Yesterday Pale Ale, which features a succulent concoction of wet hops, reborn and unfiltered into our Born Yesterday Stake Ale. Congrats… It's a beer once again!

Information technology's the Holy Grail pursuit of brewing in hoppy beer making: year-round moisture-hop flavor. Hops are proficient, fresh hops are meliorate, wet hops are the best. We say 'wet hops' considering they have not been stale after harvest. We say 'ameliorate' because they possess the fullest expression of hop flavour; vine-fresh. But as with some other herbaceous favorite of ours, they must exist chop-chop dried to prevent mold and spoilage. That drying procedure is done delicately but something is e'er lost in translation. Other good brewers have taken up the quest. The results have varied. Ours is a homegrown process of time dilation for the frail hop cone that the flower doesn't even perceive and so delivers its still newborn self to our kettle months and months after its nascency. Questing has no end and we are all the same tweaking our process only nosotros hope you lot find this mid-summer anachronism to be as satisfying as nosotros do.

Lagunitas is ane of the more prominent and widely distributed American Arts and crafts breweries. Despite being owned past Heineken for a few years, the brewery has maintained a meaning level of loyal beer drinkers and continues to churn out well-received and top selling beers, nearly prominently their acknowledged IPA. Much of their portfolio is aggressively hop-forward so my palate didn't match up with their output for the longest time. With my shifting palate and this beer appearing in a mix pack from one of my guests on the Fourth of July, I was looking forward to giving the beer a try.

Though not specifically a Summertime beer, this Stake Ale is a seasonal Ale bachelor in the summertime months between May and Baronial. Lagunitas considers this one a "Limited Release" and because of the varying hops and procedure utilized the ABV and IBU vary from year to year. The 2018 version is at seven.2% ABV and 55 IBU, while in the past it has ranged from seven.0 to 7.five ABV.

I was a piddling hesitant nearly whether I would savour this beer, to exist honest since I oasis't had much luck with any beers from Lagunitas. But when that yellowish-orange hazy opaque beer poured from the bottle to the drinking glass, I was locked in. The beer looked really appealing and gave off a pungent, inviting hop smell.

A hops assail hits the taste buds on the first sip. There'southward a lot of juicy goodness evoked by the hops, definitely citrus fruit similar orange and some tropical notes like mango. It just sits really nicely in the palate…at least my palate.

The potent hops are balanced by a fairly strong malt courage, but the juicy wet hops are the star of this beer. I call back what seals the deal for me is the unfiltered nature of the beer. As a fan of Hefeweizens and Belgian style brews, I by and large lean towards unfiltered beers. Given that, Born Again Yesterday hits all the notes I've come to appreciate in a hop-forward ale.

As a whole, this is a refreshing, juicy and delicious hop-forwards pale ale. Nada overly fancy, just a really tasty Stake Ale. Sometimes, that's exactly what the doctor ordered. I'm happy that I gave this one a shot and tin see myself going out and purchasing a pack of this one when it hits shelves next summer.

Recommended, link to Untappd 4-star rating.

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