From beerpulse, John Mallet of Bells (Director of Brewing Operations) on Hopslam.
"I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.”
My wife really liked that one. 
That is funny! I did have Hopslam on tap for the first time about a week ago and it was some awesome cat pee. Last year when it was $18 a 6-pack, I swore never again - I’ll just try to make it.
Haha, nice description; eloquently put.
Haha, hilarious! Descriptors fit for any BJCP scoresheet, right?
Sounds about right.
And yet, somehow this makes me say “I really want to drink this beer”. I guess “cat pee” is a relative term lol.
+1 I seem to really like the hops that others describe as cat pee-like.
A wine-drinking friend of mine uses the cat-pee term to describe sour beers. Definitely relative!
I’m totally getting some Hopslam this year - Monday evening Flying Saucer has a firkin of it. I gotta try to get me some of that!
“He’s cheesing out of his effing mind right now”
Not my favorite, but not a beer I’d turn down either. Pretty apt description too.
I love Hopslam!
I have yet to get the “cat pee” from any beer, homebrew or commercial, including hopslam. Maybe I’m not that sensitive to that particular odor.
The only time I ever got a true cat piss scent was a beer secondaried with Orval dregs (at about 75) when it was really young. It faded away, though.
I get it if it is really strong. My wife gets it when all I get is pine.
Didn’t get that from HopSlam last year… will try it tomorrow though and keep my nose open for it.
I do get it from Avery Maharaja… simcoe i guess.
Hopslam is kind of a midwest craft beer tradition.
It shows up, you pony up the dough for a six pack, you order it when its on tap at your local. It disappears.
Is it worth $18/six? Once a year, why not?