Energy Cone (2024)
Single Hill Brewing
- From:
- Single Hill Brewing
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.39 | pDev: 6.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 26, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 05, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This is year 5 of Energy Cone. In the other years we’ve always gone to Sauve, Loza and Cornerstone for wet hops and the fresh kilned we’ve dry hopped with. This year on brew day those farms were in alpha hops that wouldn’t make a great beer so we went to a couple favorites of ours, Blackstar and Perrault. It’s usually citra heavy but swings around depending on the year and sometimes goes more Mosaic. This year is about 3:2 Citra:Mosaic wet.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LiquidAmber from Washington
4.31/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a light to moderately hazy, golden amber with a one finger white head with good retention and light lacing. Aroma of mildly caramel malt, citrus, dank and fruit hops, orange, catty dankness, mixed mystery tropical fruit and some green onion. Flavor is pale malt, dank and citrus hops, lemon, orange, grapefruit, catty dankness, cantaloupe, some mixed tropical fruit and a little green onion again. Excellent assertive bitterness in the finish. Medium bodied with moderate creaminess, nice mouth feel. I have only a few more fresh hops in the fridge and have delved into the style so deeply for the last month, I was ready to move on to stout/barleywine season, but saw this and read some rave reviews, so grabbed this as one of the final of the season. Glad I did. I'm not a big fan of mosaic, but properly used it adds a nice exotic fruit flavor to the rest of the hop bill and does so here. Great citrus and dankness. The little touch of green onion adds some interest and is well integrated. Flavor depth is superb as is the herbal fresh hop aroma and taste. I'm late to picking this one up, so probably not the freshest of the fresh hops this year, but still one of the best ones. Nicely done.
Oct 26, 2024
Reviewed by Orca from Washington
4.45/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
16oz can (no packaging date—2024 release, probably September) into a tulip. Pours a hazyish pale yellow (mostly chill haze) with a sudsy white head, patchy lace.
Aroma is a huge burst of citrus and tropical fruits, melons, maybe some kiwi. Definite whiffs of straight-up dankness. Smells amazing.
Taste is likewise juicy, tropical, citrusy with notes of grapefruit and orange. Lots of powerful “green” fresh hops and a bit more pale malt sweetness as it warms a bit. Lively alpha acids.
Mouthfeel is pretty standard IPA—medium body, balanced.
Overall one of the tastiest, most flavor-packed fresh hop beers I’ve managed to get my hands on this season. Outstanding stuff.
Oct 07, 2024Aroma is a huge burst of citrus and tropical fruits, melons, maybe some kiwi. Definite whiffs of straight-up dankness. Smells amazing.
Taste is likewise juicy, tropical, citrusy with notes of grapefruit and orange. Lots of powerful “green” fresh hops and a bit more pale malt sweetness as it warms a bit. Lively alpha acids.
Mouthfeel is pretty standard IPA—medium body, balanced.
Overall one of the tastiest, most flavor-packed fresh hop beers I’ve managed to get my hands on this season. Outstanding stuff.
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