Chaos Emeralds
Fieldwork Brewing Co.
- From:
- Fieldwork Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 7.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 05, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 30, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
Hazy Simcoe IPA
A lot of what we do here at Fieldwork is picking the best raw materials for the job, putting them together, and trying to make every beer we make the best version of what that beer can be. Then every once in a while we come across some hops that are so good there is no combining of raw materials. No sense in risking muddling the flavors these hop growers developed so masterfully. We'll then often brew a simple beer just like this: moderate in body and low in malt character grain-bill to support one single hop. In this case, the hop is our Simcoe from the most recent harvest. The best Simcoe we have ever smelled. Notes of passion fruit, guava, grapefruit segments, white currants, and a hint of spruce tips. We love how the Simcoe hop has morphed over the years into what we have littered in the glass in front of you. We're crossing our fingers we can get Simcoe with this same profile year after year so we never have a reason to pull Chaos Emeralds IPA from our constant IPA rotation.
A lot of what we do here at Fieldwork is picking the best raw materials for the job, putting them together, and trying to make every beer we make the best version of what that beer can be. Then every once in a while we come across some hops that are so good there is no combining of raw materials. No sense in risking muddling the flavors these hop growers developed so masterfully. We'll then often brew a simple beer just like this: moderate in body and low in malt character grain-bill to support one single hop. In this case, the hop is our Simcoe from the most recent harvest. The best Simcoe we have ever smelled. Notes of passion fruit, guava, grapefruit segments, white currants, and a hint of spruce tips. We love how the Simcoe hop has morphed over the years into what we have littered in the glass in front of you. We're crossing our fingers we can get Simcoe with this same profile year after year so we never have a reason to pull Chaos Emeralds IPA from our constant IPA rotation.
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.78/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
I think bonerhog brought a crowler of this out in November 2018. Thanks.
Pours ugly cloudy, hazy yellow. Head formation sucked on it, zero retention. Thankfully, this would be the only aspect of the beer that wasn't pretty good. Aroma imparted about the most massively green herbal feel of Simcoe hops I think I've ever come across. Copious amounts of a bittering hop to make it come off as a different kind of aroma hop, I can dig it.
Taste pushes the limits of everything green to the Simcoe hop. Green grapefruit (yes), alfalfa, underripe citrus grove, pine and spruce. Sure there is a bit of a bitter sting to it, but you gotta feel something to feel alive sometimes. Simcoe often separates the men from the sawft types. Once you snap your head back, it settles comfortably and you just keep banging away on the herbal, green bitterness. Usual neutral afterthought of yeast and malt on this one. Its about the Simcoe hop, not that stuff.
Since this was from a crowler, I'll go ahead and buy a can or six if I ever see it, love Fieldwork's geography label cans (although they are starting to price themselves out of my usual beer hauls compared to others in the area).
Feb 05, 2021Pours ugly cloudy, hazy yellow. Head formation sucked on it, zero retention. Thankfully, this would be the only aspect of the beer that wasn't pretty good. Aroma imparted about the most massively green herbal feel of Simcoe hops I think I've ever come across. Copious amounts of a bittering hop to make it come off as a different kind of aroma hop, I can dig it.
Taste pushes the limits of everything green to the Simcoe hop. Green grapefruit (yes), alfalfa, underripe citrus grove, pine and spruce. Sure there is a bit of a bitter sting to it, but you gotta feel something to feel alive sometimes. Simcoe often separates the men from the sawft types. Once you snap your head back, it settles comfortably and you just keep banging away on the herbal, green bitterness. Usual neutral afterthought of yeast and malt on this one. Its about the Simcoe hop, not that stuff.
Since this was from a crowler, I'll go ahead and buy a can or six if I ever see it, love Fieldwork's geography label cans (although they are starting to price themselves out of my usual beer hauls compared to others in the area).
Reviewed by elNopalero from Michigan
4.38/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.38/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This pours a hazy straw-gold. Light aroma, even as it warms. Hints of pineapple and pine, with a real pillowy bitterness, soft and gentle. Whatever assertive is, this is at the other end.
Jun 21, 2019
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