Hot on the heels of @pollysbrewco we’ve gone and released our own version of Midnight Dipper this week, proving once and for all that there’s not enough names for hoppy bangers in the world. Our Midnight Dipper is of course far superior to theirs when one takes into account that ours is 32% hazier – the true measure of beer quality.
The smaller sibling to last year’s Space Operator, (our) Midnight Dipper is all about Idaho 7 hops in a smaller ABV package.
We’ve built a base of German Vienna and Melanoiden Malt to ramp up the chew to 11 pairing with plenty of Oats and Wheat for texture. 100% Whirlpool hopped with El Dorado to compliment the dry hop to come then fermented on London Ale III for all that’s fruity and hazy. The beer is then double dry hopped with two separate additions of Idaho 7 building to an utterly silly 18g/L total given this is such a small pale, but we want as rich an expression of this hop as we can so here it is.
We love Idaho 7 for its heavy oily backbone which we find gels together so many other hop combinations. What it adds is something that we’ve always found more akin to Southern Hemisphere varieties while itself being from the US and having a pale ale like this really shows off the rich mouthfeel it can produce while bellowing out aromas and flavours of guava, grape, fresh orange juice and mango while maintaining a light peppering of dank that you’d usually expect from longer established US varieties like Centennial and Chinook in amongst all of that. This is the roundest and hoppiest pale we’ve put out in a very long time which has firmly established Idaho 7 as one of our most versatile tools here at the brewery for delivering the joose.
Big shoutout to the crew at Polly’s also for being sound as a pound and proving that label coordination is desperately needed in the fast-moving world of arbitrary beer names on hazy hop bomb releases in our modern world. Pick up both where you can and let us know why ours is better..
The smaller sibling to last year’s Space Operator, (our) Midnight Dipper is all about Idaho 7 hops in a smaller ABV package.
We’ve built a base of German Vienna and Melanoiden Malt to ramp up the chew to 11 pairing with plenty of Oats and Wheat for texture. 100% Whirlpool hopped with El Dorado to compliment the dry hop to come then fermented on London Ale III for all that’s fruity and hazy. The beer is then double dry hopped with two separate additions of Idaho 7 building to an utterly silly 18g/L total given this is such a small pale, but we want as rich an expression of this hop as we can so here it is.
We love Idaho 7 for its heavy oily backbone which we find gels together so many other hop combinations. What it adds is something that we’ve always found more akin to Southern Hemisphere varieties while itself being from the US and having a pale ale like this really shows off the rich mouthfeel it can produce while bellowing out aromas and flavours of guava, grape, fresh orange juice and mango while maintaining a light peppering of dank that you’d usually expect from longer established US varieties like Centennial and Chinook in amongst all of that. This is the roundest and hoppiest pale we’ve put out in a very long time which has firmly established Idaho 7 as one of our most versatile tools here at the brewery for delivering the joose.
Big shoutout to the crew at Polly’s also for being sound as a pound and proving that label coordination is desperately needed in the fast-moving world of arbitrary beer names on hazy hop bomb releases in our modern world. Pick up both where you can and let us know why ours is better..