Reporting back on this after a few days. The off galaxy flavor is there. Not super prominent but there. Peanut/astringent is a good description. It’s interesting I’ve noticed this on a couple commercial beers lately. Now I know source. It’s still a great beer but I’ll likely stay away from galaxy until I hear better reports.
Comment of the year right here
I wonder if Covid helped many of those bad breath partners find love lol
I got married during covid...
You must have very nice eyes lol
What’s the closest sub people use for Galaxy? Some of my early favorite IPAs were all or heavily Galaxy (Clown Shoes Galactica was one I was hooked on a long time).
Galaxy should be getting better this year’s harvest and then moving forward. I was told by a trusted industry person that the popularity grew so much that they quickly started growing more but the infrastructure to process the increased harvest was lagging far behind so it took longer to process it than it should.
I used galaxy spectrum and it was amazing.
One of my favorite NEIPAs ever was Vic Secret, but that was a few years ago. Often described as a less intense Galaxy.
This has been previously posted by others and I have found it helpful with hop selections.
That's interesting so it isn't the hop itself that has changed over time but the processing. I would assume from that then the Galaxy that the big commercial guys are getting is still fine.
Yeah, I’m sure the fires had an impact those years but have no confirmation on that.
I met my fiancé during covid LOL
Interesting I hadn’t heard that descriptor for Mandarina before. Looked up the hop chronicles page for it and sure enough they said melon too. Maybe I’ll do Mandarina Bavaria, cashmere, Nelson sauvin.
Good Ekuanot
Good being the keyword lol I’ve always been scared of the green pepper thing so I’ve never tried it
I’ve had luck getting melon when using Citra, a touch of mosaic, abd huell melon. Also if you run laiiii 66-68 it can throw some melon
Is that the overripe cantaloupe that people try to avoid or is it a nice melon character? I should be able to ferment in that range no problem
For the longest I thought your nápeme was D’Angelo,come to find out it’s Dominic lol. For the first time ever I watched no hype beer reviews. Thinking back how do you feel about that beer?
If you under pitch and really stress the yeast to produce esters it’s certainly possible. Also hop quality is in play also.
Yeah I've gotten green pepper too often to ever use it again, with so many other options. I've heard allegedly it can be fruity
I am impatiently awaiting the release. I had a few beers from brujos, including the first fiden’s and brujos collab. Def solid, I’d put him in the top 5 for sure and possibly even top 2 or 3 (haven’t had enough to justify it with confidence lol)
He has been around for a while. I know he was brewing for great notion.
He still is with great notion. He just has his own side project going and LLC. I think he’s been doing it for 1.5-2 years. Kinda similar to what Jason from timber ales is doing, though he never “worked” professionally with 12%
He first started at black market brewing and left to do contract brewing and yeah for the last 2 years he has been doing R&D work for great notion. I first had a beer from him back in 2019/20
Yep he's just recently made a few NEIPA cans available to the public for the first time, the last few were brewed and sold at Living Haus. They just announced the physical brewery/taproom space for Brujos in Portland which will start doing can releases in October and open to the public in spring '24.
Good for him, he definitely has a great product. I’ve been floating the idea around of contract brewing. It’s a big decision, with having 3 under 5 years old and being the insurance carrier for the family, not to mention the facility is like 50-60 minutes from my house. It would certainly be a great opportunity but with the way life is right now, there’s been quite the back and forth with how feasible it would be for us as a family currently
Thanks for the info. I hadn’t heard he was anywhere besides great notions, or especially that he was doing his own thing earlier. Def makes great beer
