The Brewery: Hopshire Farm & Brewery (Freeville, NY)
The Brew: CoHOPeration (Fresh Hop Ale)
Availability: Draft
ABV: 6.8% | IBUs: 60+
Rating: 8.6/10
Location: The Westy
The Story? It's been far too long (post #008) since I've talked about Hopshire Farm & Brewery, one of Central NY's latest craft breweries. As the name suggests, Hopshire is a family owned brewery dedicated to the use of locally grown ingredients in the creation of delicious beer.
CoHOPeration boasts hops from 30 local growers, dominated by Cascade with support from Centennial, Nugget, Williamette, Chinook, Cluster, Newport and some mystery hops (not joking). 40 pounds of hops were added to the boil, then Cascade and Centennial returned for dry-hopping.
The Beer? CoHOPeration presents itself clad in translucent amber, topped with a foamy, lacy white head. The expectantly hoppy, floral and grapefruit nose sews in an unexpected sweetness with mild notes of bubblegum and honey.
Nutty, bitter hop flavors burst with citrus and grapefruit coupled by roasted malt notes and a wonderful mouthfeel. There's a growing dryness in the finish as well that provides a pleasantly bitter mouthcoat.
Another great beer from this innovative local brewery, which embrace the old and new from their 19th century-stile New York hop kiln to their sand-insulated, water-cooled environmentally friendly brewery.
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