Fresh Hop Fiend: Mosaic
Stoup Brewing Brewery & Taproom

2022-10-18
16oz can served in a big snifter. Canned 10/04/22.

Pours clear golden with a big, maybe finger-and-a-half head. Retention is good, settles slowly, looks creamy. Sustained by a moderate amount of active carbonation. Smell is dank and resinous, some lemon, lots of fresh-cut-hops.

Taste is strong resin, light honeysuckle, melon rind, nice piney bitterness on the finish.

Mouthfeel is medium with a resinous film. Overall, very nice example of a fresh hop.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a two finger white head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma of lightly caramel malt, citrus and dank hops, lemon, grapefruit, catty dankness and some green pepper. Flavor is caramel malt, citrus, piney and dank hops, lemon, mixed stone fruit, light tropical fruit, red berries, pine and bubblegum. Splendid alpha oil bitterness in the finish with residual fruit esters. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. Full of classic mosaic complex flavors with some of the better stone fruit character I've had from mosaic before. Nice citrus and pine too as well as a touch of dankness. Sounds busy, but this tasted great to me. In my top 5 fresh hops for the year, I really liked this one a lot. Although swamped right now with fresh hops and the start of stout season, I'm going to look for some other hop varieties of this one.