Hop Nouveau
Selin's Grove Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I picked this growler up at the brewpub after enjoying a sample on tap, poured chilled from the 2L into a cervoise.

The color is beautiful hazed amber with 2 fingers of ecru cream with ultra fine bead, visibly carbonated with specks of lace sticking on the glass. The smell has lots of green hop scents with moderate level of caramel in the aroma with light fruit ester of yeast and pleasant combination of herbal/citrus in the hop smell. The feel is very good with semi-full body with mild sweet texture followed by a resinous and oily hop quality with moderate carbontion and low astringency with slight bitterness increasing to a mostly dry finish with low alcohol influence on the palate.

The flavor begins with a nice clean bitter herbal taste with tea-like hop and mildly caramel malt entry with more toasted flavor mid palate and lightly spice oriented flavor of hops with a fruity/tangy yeast accent. The hops have a subtle bitter but not quite grassy flavor with nice caramel body enhancing the fresh hops by supporting into a mostly dry and only leaning slightly toward the hop bitterness balance-wise. This is a decent pale ale which is easy to quaff -a good example of the style with sufficiently bitter flavor it has a nice amount of hop flavor which makes for a drinkable American Pale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had on tap at Selin's Grove. Review from notes.

A: Pours a dark copper color with a small white head on top that dissipated quickly leaving behind a few bubbles. No lacing.

S: Fruity and rather green. Some grassy hops, slightly sweet.

T: Decent, some nice hop characteristics, with some grass, earthy hops, and slight bitterness. Some caramel mixed in.

M: Medium bodied with low to medium carbonation.

O: A decent beer, was hoping for a bit more of an assertive hop presence.