Ritmo
Alder Beer Co

JULY 2024.
44cl can of a batch with a packaging date 12 days earlier (€7 from the beershop fridge).
It's defined by the master brewer Marco Valeriani as a California IPA inspired by the modern West Coast IPA of the San Diego school.
Produced with only Pils malt (which gives it a truly beautiful color and transparency) and American Ale yeast, it's hopped with classic hops from the American tradition: Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra, Chinook CGX (i.e. processed with cryogenic technology to separate the lupulin from the rest of the cone and offer a concentrated quantity to increase the flavor yield), Mosaic and Simcoe Cryo (same thing: cryogenic process to separate the lupulin and the bract and obtain a concentrated lupulin which will flavor the beer).
On the nose there are immediately citrus and lighter notes of yellow fruit (peach, medlar, melon).
When poured, it produces an adequate foam of good consistency, which never leaves the head of the beer.
The colour is a very beautiful golden and is almost completely transparent (very "lagerized", i.e. similar to a Lager beer, except for a light haze).
In the mouth, beer with a medium body but "lightened" by a lively carbonation which makes it very easy and quick to drink and conveys a sensation of freshness of the product.
In the mouth there is not the usual "invasion" of the palate by fruity notes that I have found in other Alder West Coast IPAs.
Here the drink is quicker and without frills with a pleasant balance between fruity notes and a bitter finish.
The entry is characterized by a citrus flavor (orange peel, grapefruit) which fades into more fruity and floral notes (peach, melon) which in turn end quickly thanks to a nice woody bitterness (pine needles, forest grass ) and resinous, which dries the beer leaving a pleasant fruity aftertaste on the palate and at the same time a slight bitter note on the tongue.