Wet Hops at Nodding Head
In Philadelphia most weekends are good ones for the beer lover but this one is shaping up to be extra awesome. In addition to the Craft Beer Express there’s this fresh hop cask beer event at Nodding Head. Beginning at 3pm the Sansom Street brew pub will be pouring five cask wet hop ales.
On the Hand Pump
Harvest Ale
Our celebration of the hop harvest (5.5%abv)… brewed with fresh hops flown in from the pacific northwest… this years version features citra hops
Gravity Pour
Wet chinook double IPA
A single hop variety double ipa (8.5%abv) brewed with fresh chinook hops and dry hopped with even more chinook… a citrusy, piney, resin laden annual treat
X
An experimental wet hop beer (4.75%abv)… 700 level base generously hopped with fresh local grown hops and fermented with saison yeast
Hoppo Marx
Hoppy wheat beer (5%abv)… pale in color and light in body with a restrained aroma and a pronounced hop flavor and lingering finish dry-hopped with fresh localy grown galena
BPA
Bill payer ale… Hoppy pale ale (5% abv)… Separated from many Of its counterparts by the solid malt backbone… A perennial favorite dry-hopped with fresh localy grown cascade
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