I was excited to hear that Two Beers Brewing would start selling beer in Oregon -- in cans no less. When Geoff Kaiser invited me up to Seattle last year to help judge the Fresh Hop Throwdown, the entry from Two Beers was one of my favorites, and I'm very picky about fresh hop beers.So I've been looking forward to trying more of their beers now that they're coming this way. Yesterday I snagged cans of their Trailhead India Session Ale and Evolutionary IPA. The Trailhead is a nice hoppy pale with a relatively low 4.8% ABV. Not quite as bitter or even as low alcohol as the Stone-Ballast Point San Diego Session Ale, but it's a choice I'll seek out again.
I liked the Evolutionary also, but wow! what a lot of yeast floaties were in there, so many that you can see them pretty clearly even in the crummy cellphone picture there. I was taken aback a few years ago by Hop Henge floaties, but Evolutionary takes it to the next level entirely. It was kind of mesmerizing to watch them rise and fall with the bubbles in the glass -- it was like a beery snow globe. Thick and sticky, with tons of citrusy hops, it's good stuff as long as the big chunks don't turn you off.
One more note about Two Beers: the recently introduced Churchkey Pilsner is contract-brewed at Two Beers. Interestingly, the recipe for that was developed by Sean Burke, the full-time brewer at SE Portland's Commons Brewery.
No kidding, lots of floaties! However as long as the floaties come from a bottle or can, and not a tap line that can't remember the last time it was cleaned, they're ok in my book.
ReplyDeleteLove the little trivia at the end of the post as well.
That looks awesome. Must try.
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