Fresh Hopped Four Hundo
Fat Head's Brewery & Saloon

This pours a tan golden color. Light aroma with hints of melon. Pine and melon on the palate with just a touch of citrus squeeze. Bit of a sticky body.

On tap at St. Johns Beer Porch, Portland, OR.

Poured a nearly clear bright golden yellow. A thin and wispy white foam leaves small traces of patchy lacing on the sides of the glass.

Mango and melon dominate the nose. Hard to detect much else, but very pleasant regardless.

Flavor is very tropical fruit forward, however, there was a buttery taste and some sweet malt to compliment. A hint of fresh pine serves as the final blow.

The feel is light, crisp, and clean. It's very drinkable, and had a good amount of bitterness. Fine bubbly carbonation plays a perfect vessel to distribute said bitterness evenly, and it lingers on.

This is a beautiful beer, though I feel it is hard to tell its "fresh hop" presence over any regularly hopped beer. The slight buttery flavor was not ideal, but overall this was a very enjoyable. Cheers!

 

On tap (Portland):
Dark bar, but was one of the lighter beers in the sampler before this full pour. Seems a slightly above light haze. Head is good, sustaining. Soapy ring provides sheets early, heavy spots later for lacing.

Nose is quite hoppy, with a citrus, leaning lemony, hoppy note. Vegetal notes are present, seeming to confirm the use of fresh hops. A little grain cracker note is detected, but the hops pretty much rule this one.

Opens clean with that cracker malt pretty coding just a little body. Grapefruit pith bitterness hits early, with the vegetal and more distinctly citrus notes from the nose hitting by mid taste. Not quite as lemony as the nose, maybe more white grapefruit with a little lemon. A vegetal bitter ending with the backbone lasting to the end, before a lingering classic American pith/pine bitterness lingers.

Crisp, with a near clean finish, the bitterness provides the fun while the malt keeps things in control. Little extra tingly carbonation is just a tad distracting.

Really enjoyed this out of the gate. I tempered my enthusiasm as I really got into it, but it’s still a very good beer for me. I’m also guessing I’m getting this quite fresh.

Clear light gold-amber with a little persistent film and creamy lace after the frothy white head quickly settles.

Smell is dank cannabis, lemon and orange.

Taste is cannabic pine, toast and cracker with semi-bitter orange rind and burnt rubber.

Medium body, crisp froth, semi-dry.