The Good Land Brewing core range might be an accessible one, featuring a lager, pale ale and an XPA but the brewery’s limited releases can really head in any direction. In the case of the hazy IPA, 100s & 1000s, that direction is clearly one of hops. Using 20 grams per litre of beer, it's a beer dry-hopped with Citra Lupomaxc, Columbus and the new experimental American hop, HBC 630 all in the mix, while Eclipse was also thrown in at a lower temperature in the whirlpool to further push out big notes of citrus. It's not only about the hops though, with two different varieties of oats and two of wheat in the malt base which provide an amply soft, fluffy and almost creamy base of the hop flavours to do their work.
And get to work they do, with myriad flavours making themselves known. Maybe there aren't quite a hundred or even a thousand different ones but there's a broad base of citrus in the hazy that moves between mandarin, orange, and grapefruit. It then departs the world of citrus for the land of tropical fruits, with pineapple and mango and guava or in the mix before a berry note comes to the front and is joined by a more dank note of pine.
Will Ziebell
Published August 27, 2021 2021-08-27 00:00:00
