Hop Drop
Rohrbach Brewing Company (Brewery)

Pours lemon yellow with a light haze. Fat creamy head that lasts and clings as it falls. No active carbonation in the beer. The haze gives it a soft candy like glow. Nose is a touch of sweetness and a catty hop. Green bell pepper. Grasses and lemon. Taste is smooth and silky. The hops offer a little bitterness to accent their herbal and give a touch sticky mouthfeel to a soft and very palatable malt. The bitterness does not strip the palate but leaves it open to the food. Finishes without any bite from bubbles just some softer carbonation to let it go down malty and expansive. The beer is crisp and creamy at the same time. If these ekuanot hops have a fruity flavor I am hard pressed to see it on this beer at first because of their sensational green pepper scent and then I notice melon. As it warms I began to notice more fruity type scents that I would say are tropical. The hop is also peppery. Both peppery as in herbal pepper and pepper as in white pepper. There is a mild floral. I love these complex hops. The citrus in them is very suggestable and you could say either lemon or lime. I was calling them equinox and that is now my mistake. These hops are so unique , so freshly vibrant with an uncommon flavor that I have been pairing them with all kinds of foods. This beer goes with fajitas, paprikash, chicken and dumplings, pepper steak and any dish that features green pepper. Move over Vienna lager there is now a new choice!