Rarefaction
Topa Topa Brewing
- From:
- Topa Topa Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 02, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 02, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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In early 2020, we came together with our friends at Burgeon Beer Company to brew a beer together. Little did we know, the world was on the cusp of a terrible time. We all experienced rarefaction for the last two years, whether it was the social distancing, the collaboration beers brewed via videoconference, or just the way time seemed to have spaced out between moments and minutes and months. Everyone and everything felt so far apart. So much has changed since we brewed our last beer together, and just like the season of Spring that brings blossoms back to the barren, this felt like the right time to bring our friends from North County San Diego back up to Ventura for a little re-brew-nion. In the spirit of coming together again, our new recipe reflects a mutual love for bright-and-balanced West Coast IPAs and crisp-and-clean Pilsners, and it's our joy to present to you Rarefaction- a West Coast Pils!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BucannonXC5 from California
4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Type: 16-oz. can
Reviewed as: American Pilsner
Glass: Three Weavers 16-oz. Willi Becher glass
Price: $4.29
From: Windmill Farms in Del Cerro (San Diego), Calif.
Purchased: July 15, 2022
Consumed: July 29, 2022
Misc.: Collaboration with Burgeon Beer Company; Packaged on May 4, 2022
Went to grab a 6-pack and a few cans at Windmill Farms and came home with 29 beers, spending way too much money. Topa Topa’s website called for “In early 2020, we came together with our friends at Burgeon Beer Company to brew a beer together. Little did we know, the world was on the cusp of a terrible time. We all experienced rarefaction for the last two years, whether it was the social distancing, the collaboration beers brewed via videoconference, or just the way time seemed to have spaced out between moments and minutes and months. Everyone and everything felt so far apart. So much has changed since we brewed our last beer together, and just like the season of Spring that brings blossoms back to the barren, this felt like the right time to bring our friends from North County San Diego back up to Ventura for a little re-brew-nion. In the spirit of coming together again, our new recipe reflects a mutual love for bright-and-balanced West Coast IPAs and crisp-and-clean Pilsners, and it's our joy to present to you Rarefaction- a West Coast Pils!”
Poured a straw-to-pale yellow clear color with three fingers of frothy white head. Could see some bubble streams up along the sides of the glass. Outstanding spotty lacing. World-class foamy retention. (Sight - 4.50)
Smelled bitter dish soap, resin, skunk, wet grass, lime, pine, green vegetable and black pepper. A little better each whiff. Just as good out of the can. (Smell - 3.75)
Tasted a little smoother than the smell. In order got bitter dish soap, skunky resin, wet grass, pine, lime, green vegetable, black pepper, grapefruit rind and earthy pilsner malt. (Taste - 4.00)
Medium body. Oily texture. Lively carbonation. Abrupt, bitter finish. (Feel - 4.25)
A really nice beer. Got better each sip as it went down. Outstanding hoppy pilsner. (Overall - 4.00)
4.00 | 90 | A-
Feb 02, 2025Reviewed as: American Pilsner
Glass: Three Weavers 16-oz. Willi Becher glass
Price: $4.29
From: Windmill Farms in Del Cerro (San Diego), Calif.
Purchased: July 15, 2022
Consumed: July 29, 2022
Misc.: Collaboration with Burgeon Beer Company; Packaged on May 4, 2022
Went to grab a 6-pack and a few cans at Windmill Farms and came home with 29 beers, spending way too much money. Topa Topa’s website called for “In early 2020, we came together with our friends at Burgeon Beer Company to brew a beer together. Little did we know, the world was on the cusp of a terrible time. We all experienced rarefaction for the last two years, whether it was the social distancing, the collaboration beers brewed via videoconference, or just the way time seemed to have spaced out between moments and minutes and months. Everyone and everything felt so far apart. So much has changed since we brewed our last beer together, and just like the season of Spring that brings blossoms back to the barren, this felt like the right time to bring our friends from North County San Diego back up to Ventura for a little re-brew-nion. In the spirit of coming together again, our new recipe reflects a mutual love for bright-and-balanced West Coast IPAs and crisp-and-clean Pilsners, and it's our joy to present to you Rarefaction- a West Coast Pils!”
Poured a straw-to-pale yellow clear color with three fingers of frothy white head. Could see some bubble streams up along the sides of the glass. Outstanding spotty lacing. World-class foamy retention. (Sight - 4.50)
Smelled bitter dish soap, resin, skunk, wet grass, lime, pine, green vegetable and black pepper. A little better each whiff. Just as good out of the can. (Smell - 3.75)
Tasted a little smoother than the smell. In order got bitter dish soap, skunky resin, wet grass, pine, lime, green vegetable, black pepper, grapefruit rind and earthy pilsner malt. (Taste - 4.00)
Medium body. Oily texture. Lively carbonation. Abrupt, bitter finish. (Feel - 4.25)
A really nice beer. Got better each sip as it went down. Outstanding hoppy pilsner. (Overall - 4.00)
4.00 | 90 | A-
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