658 IBUs huh? Ummm... suuuuurrrreeeee
Probably $100/bomber too
You could use it as the old school Vikings did their semi-toxic shrooms, keester it!
So THAT'S where all the Amarillo went!
Yeah, those guys just need to stop. Everyone always looks at me funny when I say that guy is an extreme DB. That beer is a perfect example.
My friend distributes Dogfish Head for a third tier distributor in New Jersey and swears Sam Calagione is one of the most affable and un-snobby beer geeks in the craft sphere. Considering what I've seen in interviews and Brew Dogs, I'm inclined to agree.
You might not like Dogfish Head but its founder is like a lost puppy in his love for beer. Hard to find argument with that.
So I lost a quart or so of wort to hop absorption on my last brew which had 11 oz of hops. With 658 IBU, hmm ... times the rate of absorption ... carry the 1 ... aaaand you'd yield one cup of wort.
...........tinseth formula currently the best we have and the simplified version is the industry standard, but it starts to fall apart once you exceed 70~.
I'm sure it has more to do with the marketing team than the brewer.This is like all those golden earred audio geeks who brag about how the speakers in their stereo systems can play all the way up to 50kHz, when the human ear can't hear much if anything at all past 20kHz. The top end is even lower as you age, so I wonder if our palates are the same way.
Nothing against Sam. I do love his beers and he is one brewer I'd love to meet as the "puppy dog" quote mentioned, imo, is spot on. Dogfish Head seems to still have that same "homebrew" spirit to them that I like. I really hated to see Brewmasters getting canceled a few years back. I think that would have been a great show.
658 IBUs is just over the top for me. Would I try it? Absolutely, but I don't think I would buy it as it probably would be a $100 bomber.
I'd be more interested in the Chicha or the *****'s Brew.
So I say gimmick. Would I try it if offered (even though I don't like stupidly hoppy much)? Absolutely. Am I ever going to pay for it? Uhh....no.
This is like all those golden earred audio geeks who brag about how the speakers in their stereo systems can play all the way up to 50kHz, when the human ear can't hear much if anything at all past 20kHz.
I can't wait until they start selling hop extract with some beer in it.
I don't like DIPAs, but a small part of me just wants to brew something theoretically extreme on the IBUs. Even test one at 120 vs 400, or something like that. Why can't brulosophy do one of those? I'm sure he could get the hops donated for it.
iso acids have a solubility limit that isn't accounted for by the tinseth formula. Moreover iso acids degrade throughout extended boil. Some of them are lost after the boil, to trub. Some are lost after fermentation.
Besides the science above it's often attributed that we can't taste above 70 Ibu. I doubt there would be any significant difference. I'm sure that it's somewhere on Marshalls extensive "to do" list though.
Of course!
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