lagunitas hop stoopid
I recently pulled out a bottle of lagunitas’ hop stoopid, a double IPA, while cooking up some BBQ.
- this was originally called “sonoma farmhouse” hop stoopid, which confused me when I first saw it a year or two ago.
- I kept passing this bottle by until I got into a discussion with an employee at a bevmo in LA who swore to me that hop stoopid and avery’s maharaja (one of my all-time favorites) were one and the same and that I should switch to hop stoopid for financial reasons (it is a couple bucks cheaper).
- although the brews are somewhat different, hop stoopid is amazing in its own right. it has an intense hop aroma that puts a smile on your face and enough malt (@8% abv) to keep the hop bitterness in check.
- I wish I would have started picking this up earlier, since it’s price point beats out many inferior double IPAs (it’s less than $5 for a bomber, and surprisingly, many local liquor stores around here carry it).
- I also just read that lagunitas uses hop extracts in this batch?? interesting, that’s probably how they get it up to 102 IBU on a reasonable budget, but I’m not sure how excited I am about hop extract use. hell, it tastes great, they must be doing something right.
Tags: avery, bevmo, double IPA, hop stoopid, lagunitas, maharaja
