My local craft brewery (Siren) have been busy this last month or so executing a beery project called "Time Hops". The idea is that they revisited pivotal beers in the history of modern craft beer with a particular emphasis on the revolutionary American hops that made those beers special. There are four beers in the series but five hops showcased, these are, Cascade, Citra-Mosaic, Centennial and Simcoe (Citra and Mosaic invariably go together) The project was officially launched at the end of July at an investor only event held at Reading University Student Union and followed up by a public festival at the same venue the next day and wider release following that. I attended the investor event and managed to snag an early taste of the four beers, there were a couple of real corkers in there, but each one deserves a more detailed analysis so I'll be assessing each beer and explaining the history of it in separate posts this week starting with Cascade and working my way left to right thru Citra-Mosaic, Centennial and finishing with Simcoe.
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