hop valley bubble stash

Commercial Beer Reviews
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uh so i grabbed this because it was on sale and it prominently said cryo hops, which i thought would be neat to try to taste, since i havent brewed with them yet, though intend to.

lol, this is absolute s***. i would say the hop aroma (predictable generic C-hopness) is very clean and clear without the tannin-burn i normally get from even WC IPAs, but it has a definite sour note to it, and extremely weak malt.

why the hell is this sour? it is definitely sour. just googled it and realized its a molson-coors product, but still. it is distinctly sour and that just jumps in front of anything else.

“high drinkability”, bland as hell. heh funny enough too the website says ingredients are 2row, crystal and carafoam. yet ingredients on the side say wheat and barley malt.

i hate commercial beers so much.

lol this was the founder of hop valley. look at him, i want to pull out the phrenology craniometre when i see him.

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I have had a few of their beers, cannot remember which ones, and I was less than impressed.

3

They are from here in Eugene. I won’t drink their stuff.  Not any better than any of the myriad other choices here, and owned by MillerCoors.

4

i mean im guessing its a big no, but the strange sourness. nothing to do with cryohops, right?

i was intending to use them in one of the next brews i do.

5

BIG no. Ive used cryo since before it was commercially available and never gotten sourness from it.