ASAP As Possible
Green Cheek Beer Company

This one only comes once a year….When your pals from @‌indiehops call you up and tell you that they’re gonna pick some fresh Strata from one of your absolute favorite hop farms ( @‌colemanagriculture in Oregon) at 4am in the morning, and then throw them on a plane at 8am, and then that you can pick them up at John Wayne Airport at 11am, you do it! We did, and then had them fresh cones in wort by 130pm that same day. We took some advice from the Fresh Hop King himself, Steve Luke of @‌cloudburstbrew , and used a whopping 15 POUNDS PER BBL on the hot side. The smell of the brewery was insane! We made this one as a SMASH beer using only Gambrinus Pils and Strata to allow the hop expression pop through like crazy. After fermentation, we sprinkled in 3 lbs per bbl of Strata & Strata CGX from the same farm, for a total of 18 lb per bbl of hops (which is the most we’ve ever used in any beer, ever). This beer hits with an intense lychee candy and peach tea profile, while whiffs of pineapple, orange marmalade and raspberry sneak through, and fill out the complexity further.