I tried these two beers last weekend and both heavily featured one of my favourite hops, Citra. Both by Verdant down in Falmouth one was a lager called "Helles Outlier" and the other a real haze bomb of an East Coast IPA called "Even Sharks Need Water".
The Helles isn't like normal lagers, it's been heavily hopped both hot and cold side with various incarnations of Citra, an American hop usually seen in modern IPA styles. Some of the hops in this are so new that they only have scientific codes for names, for example YCH702 and HBC638 but never mind that, the beer is delicious! So resinous and dank (think cannabis) not your regular Carlsberg type lager, much, much better in my view, this wouldn't win any prizes in a German Oktoberfest, in fact they'd probably throw it out for breaking the Reinheitsgebot but for a great expression of Citra hops it's a winner.
Even Sharks is a classic Verdant hazy IPA, made with their own in-house yeast variety, thick, creamy and so fruity! It features Citra hops but they're backed up by Galaxy, an Australian hop that delivers citrus and orange flavours, a delight to drink perfectly balanced and with just the right amount of bitterness to counter the fruit, great effort.
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