Hazy IPA

Their breakfast stout, a coffee stout, was crowned category champion in specialty amber to dark for cask, while Shameless was the winner for IPA.

They also took a silver in keg, non-alcoholic and low ABV for less is more mosaic and a bronze for dreamless, a New England hazy pale.

Well, there you go.

I mean, That's incredible.

And if people are really big into beer and more particularly the craft beer scene, they may have heard of The Alchemist already.

Obviously, it's a local brewery, but they are really famous for their New England Hazy IPA and almost created the craft beer scene for the New England Hazy IPA on the East Coast.

And they have a beer that's ranked one of the best beers in the world called Hetty Topper.

And they don't really distribute outside of Vermont.

yeah and anytime a 19 percenter comes in at number one i'm kind of excited about it um now let's talk about the number two drop uh because you know we the list is always u.s breweries and sometimes u.s breweries collab with breweries outside of the u.s and that is the case with the number two drop tell us about it

for sure yeah i've seen these uh Shelton with uh they collabed with Brasserie Dubois Canada on Gantapede it looks like uh I'm assuming a play on Centipede there but double New England IPA eight percenter um and it was at a 4.68 when we profiled it it's dropped a little bit but still at a 4.62 on 46 ratings

And that's a good amount of ratings.

For sure, yeah.

Yeah, brew host with Oniero.

Yeah, I'm guessing that's Oniero.

Yeah, 10%er, triple New England IPA.

It's at a 4.66, and it's still at 4.6%.

You can definitely tell when there's real fruit involved and when it's extracts and all this.

I... to be honest it really annoys me now like you said Burning Sky are a great example we had Little Earth Project who sadly no longer brewing they were great as well those are the sort of sours I want to drink right let's open the New England Dave you didn't hold back on the nectar on

this I would say no I didn't this is the so I've got a few in this series you've got Univect haven't you

Yeah, so this is Magnum, Simcoe and Nectarum.

But actually, they also bring this lovely juiciness that you get.

You know, the oats, the wheat will give that as well.

so this one yeah i've changed it and all of them now i basically do the aroma so a big whirlpool of the the more piney resin so in this case simcoe so eigenvector is citra galaxy so galaxy brings the resin citra brings the kind of juice at the end and then tangent vector is mosaic playing the kind of resin and then crush which some people love i think it's a slight divisive hop but yeah I love Nectaron so it's Simcoe's now kind of the bittering so it goes in as a late edition but it's in the whirlpool and then it's a really big but yeah as I say what I learn a lot about the hop oils is you don't I think a kilo of hops something like 30 ml of hop oil because you're trying to get the oils out of the hops essentially but you also then have a huge amount of waste product that comes out but you need enough waste product to be able to suspension to give it the mouthfeel so this is kind of 50-50 so there's and you end up adding more hops essentially or more hop oils into it so yeah i'm i'm really happy with the iteration this and this is something i have really enjoyed that i didn't get on the homebrew scale and i probably don't get from just brewing loads of one-off beers is i think this is the third iteration of univector i think it's got better and better each time the first one had the flavor it was too thin you then adapt it and stuff but yeah essentially that's yeah it's it's a kind of classical new england base loads of oats loads of wheat

plenty of kind of mouthful there i I'll tell you what comes across really well in everything you've said so far about your different beers.