Green Knuckle - Citra
Cellarmaker Brewing Co.
- From:
- Cellarmaker Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.29 | pDev: 1.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 05, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 30, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Green Knuckle is our new annual series of single-variety wet hop beers, brewed to showcase each cultivar’s vibrant and radiant character. Every batch will highlight an individual farm’s expression and provide the freshest and most raw hop character possible. Harvested straight off the bine in the morning and in our brewhouse by the same afternoon, these beers truly present each hop in its purest form.
Citra in wet hop form is a completely different expression from what most people have become accustomed to with this hop. Straight from the bines of BC Hop Ranch in Woodburn, Oregon, the full and unadulterated cones of Citra deliver a sensory overload of the delicate thiols and terpenes often lost during the kilning process. The beer exudes bright notes of key lime, tangerine, and vibrant passionfruit all layered on a canvas of overripe Alphonso mango. Beyond the juicy/fruity aromas lies the subtle yet unmistakable “green” characterics of wet hops. Evoking notes of freshly cut California Sweetgrass and just a touch of sticky cannabis.
Each batch should be consumed quickly, as the delicate compounds that make these beers so vivid and unique degrade rapidly. These beers are peak hop season in a glass, so please enjoy them while it lasts!
Citra in wet hop form is a completely different expression from what most people have become accustomed to with this hop. Straight from the bines of BC Hop Ranch in Woodburn, Oregon, the full and unadulterated cones of Citra deliver a sensory overload of the delicate thiols and terpenes often lost during the kilning process. The beer exudes bright notes of key lime, tangerine, and vibrant passionfruit all layered on a canvas of overripe Alphonso mango. Beyond the juicy/fruity aromas lies the subtle yet unmistakable “green” characterics of wet hops. Evoking notes of freshly cut California Sweetgrass and just a touch of sticky cannabis.
Each batch should be consumed quickly, as the delicate compounds that make these beers so vivid and unique degrade rapidly. These beers are peak hop season in a glass, so please enjoy them while it lasts!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by RyanK252 from California
4.24/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Can poured into a Mountain Rambler Brewery pint glass
A: Pours golden yellow with a frothy cream white head that settles to a light layer and leaves a little thin lacing.
S: Dank grassy herbal notes, spicy and resinous, zesty ripe citrus, underlying juicy tropical and stone fruit, floral hints, biscuity malt, and a touch of light caramel sweetness.
T: Green grassy, herbal, and resinous notes, a little dank, dare I say a hint of diesel, ripe citrus, orange/tangerine, grapefruit, and lemon, ripe tropical and stone fruit, nectarine, mango, passion fruit, apricot, pineapple, and light melon, faintly floral, biscuity malt, and a touch of light caramel sweetness.
M: Medium body, moderate carbonation, a bit oily in a good way.
O: Super smooth, but still brings all the fresh hop goodness, and even a few flavors you don't always associate with Citra. Really nice modern Westy style fresh hop IPA. (That's a mouthful.)
I wish I was able to get my hands on more beers from this series this year, but I'm stoked to at least get this one.
Nov 05, 2025A: Pours golden yellow with a frothy cream white head that settles to a light layer and leaves a little thin lacing.
S: Dank grassy herbal notes, spicy and resinous, zesty ripe citrus, underlying juicy tropical and stone fruit, floral hints, biscuity malt, and a touch of light caramel sweetness.
T: Green grassy, herbal, and resinous notes, a little dank, dare I say a hint of diesel, ripe citrus, orange/tangerine, grapefruit, and lemon, ripe tropical and stone fruit, nectarine, mango, passion fruit, apricot, pineapple, and light melon, faintly floral, biscuity malt, and a touch of light caramel sweetness.
M: Medium body, moderate carbonation, a bit oily in a good way.
O: Super smooth, but still brings all the fresh hop goodness, and even a few flavors you don't always associate with Citra. Really nice modern Westy style fresh hop IPA. (That's a mouthful.)
I wish I was able to get my hands on more beers from this series this year, but I'm stoked to at least get this one.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.25/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
really tasty wet citra ipa, not quite as compelling at the mosaic edition i had a day earlier, but pretty epic to drink a few fresh hop beers from these guys in close succession, been ages since ive had a chance to drink any cellarmaker beer and these are both stellar. the clarity on this is impressive, usually these fresh hop beers, even the west coast ones, permit some general unvarnished character, but this looks especially tidy, just past yellow and really bright with a fizzy white head from the tap. the nose here is brilliantly fruity, well beyond the pellet form in most instances, tropical, lemon and lime and sweet orange with papaya and honeydew to me, juicy without being cloying, oily and a little resinous, not bitter to me at all, bold without being green, absurdly fresh, cleanly fermented beer here with a minimal grain profile as well, which is all true in the flavor, mango and meyer lemon, ripe melon and smashed pineapple, floral honey and live rosin, whoa. very punchy as citra goes, a stronger voice, and i like how light the grain is, this is just a citra bomb but with tempered bitterness, a ton of carbonation, and still easy drinking enough to almost be refreshing, real light bodied. again i think the moasic was even a step up from this, but this is a next level expression of this hop, no doubt! cellarmaker always seems to deliver at a high level, and this was really impressive.
Oct 16, 2025
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