The second beer in the "Time Hops" series is called "Citra-Mosaic", two main hops in this one (as per the name) and this time Siren were trying to recreate an American beer by the Alchemist brewery in Vermont called "Focal Banger". This beer emerged into the world in 2013 and was a revelation. Not only was it utterly saturated in hop flavour (due to the massive quantities of dry-hopping going on in the process) but also, importantly, hazy! Until then the pervasive wisdom was that if a beer was hazy then there was something wrong with it, not so, in fact often quite the opposite. After the success of Focal Banger people started to embrace hazy beers and these days they are commonplace, but back in 2013 it caused quite a stir and much angst among traditional beer drinkers. I visited the home of the Alchemist brewery back in July on my trip around Vermont and sampled this beer (among others) at source, it was fab. This particular version of it was also great, probably my favourite of the series, smooth, hazy and full of wonderful hop flavours from the classic Citra-Mosaic combo.
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