I just polished off the last of a Topcutter 6-pk, and while they were all delicious, all had a lot of sediment floating about when poured into a glass. I've only ever encountered that with hoppy beers that were super old, but these were canned slightly over a month before I picked up the 6-pk, so I'm a little perplexed by it. What gives?
Perhaps Bale Breaker just wants to be like Alchemist, make an ugly beer, and just tell people to drink it straight from the can?
Because MOAR hops... If they tasted fine and you knew they were fresh, might have bought a 6pk that was racked from the bottom of the brite tank? Dunno about their process, but if it tastes fine I'm happy to allow a little hop matter in my beer.
I noticed this too, I think actually with Field 41. I just figured they like their hops chunky style. If it ain't broke...
it varies batch to batch I have had some topcutter with floaties and others without. Prob because it is a highly hopped unfiltered beer???
I have had plenty of other beers that match that description, and never encountered it from them or the many draft Topcutters I've had. In fact, the only other beer I've ever had that looked similar was a freakishly old 6-pk of Winterfish I bought and drank when a noob about a dozen years ago. Those had been at least a year old, so I had always assumed that level of flakiness was a product of age. That's why I was so surprised to see Topcutter look like that when it was canned on March 3 and purchased a month or so later.
The look of the floaties was similar, though things were not nearly as cloudy. Like I said, it tasted fine, I was just nonplussed by the appearance. If able to speak, my liver would say, "Oh, God, not another IPA," so it's not like I don't drink such beers regularly, including the awesome one in your pic.
I've never associated sediment with lack of beer freshness. Is this a real issue? Do hoppy beers get chunkier as they age? I always assumed that the chunks were in the beer at bottling, and remained there until you drink it.
Yes, yeast will fall out of suspension eventually. Especially with old IPA's for some reason. I have seen it a ton.
