Grains of Wrath / Trap Door Brewing The Hindenburg IPA

Beer Name: The Hindenburg
Brewery: Grains of Wrath Brewing (Camas, WA) in collaboration with Trap Door Brewing (Vancouver, WA) and Zzeppelin Media
ABV: 6.5%
How sold: 16 oz tallboy cans; on draft
Where bought: Belmont Station (Portland, OR)
Price: $4.15 for 16 oz single tallboy can

Date Canned: March 28, 2019
Date Purchased: April 13, 2019
Date Drank: April 19, 2019
When brewed? Possibly a limited-time beer. Collaboration released early April 2019.
IBU: 77

What's on the Cans**: "In the era of post-prohibition, brew mike Hunsaker is pressing boundaries of what America calls an ale. Generous amount of hops are added to the style known as India Pale Ale to bring out flavors of citrus, pine, and tropical fruits. Scientists and enthusiasts alike are astonished that such fabulous flavors flow from this humulus lupulus flower.

'This hooch isn't hazy. IPA should be clean, bright and exploding with hops!' But ask Zane Singleton, brewer of Trap Door Brewing, about the clarity of IPA and he'll disagree.

Zane asserts that the haze craze is here for days and it pays. 'Hunsaker's a mad man, see' said Singleton of GOW's head brewer.

'The thought of making all IPAs clear is for the birds!' Singleton believes Hunsaker is behind the eight ball on haze.

Just as the brewers were about to come to fisticuffs, the marketing mavens of Main Street known as ZZEPPELIN stepped in to bring the two sides together. The solution was for Trap Door and Grains of Wrath to collaborate on two beers. Both follow a very similar recipe. One hazy. One clear. Tip a few."

**NOTE: This is a mish-mash of GoW's and Trap Door's cans. The description is split in half on purpose to make consumers buy both cans.

What's on the Website: "2-Beer collaboration with our friends at Trap Door Brewing and Zzeppelin Media! Ours is a West Coast IPA with flavors and aromas of citrus, pine, and tropical fruit while trap Door's is a hazy NE-Style of the same base ingredients." 

Where distributed: Grains of Wrath Brewing distributes to Oregon and Washington.

REVIEW:

Appearance (5%): Poured clear golden into a pint glass. Still appears unfiltered. White head, some lacing. 4.25/5

Smell (25%): Soft citrus and pine. Balanced, not too assertive. Mark it in the "just right" category. 4.5/5

Taste (40%): Balanced pine and citrus initially, then gradually increasing tropical citrus through the aftertaste. Aftertaste is all citrus orange. Pleasing bitterness, and only of the soft citrus peel type, finishes off everything nicely. 4.5/5

Mouthfeel (10%): Medium-bodied; some carbonation. Very juicy with some dry tongue. 4.25/5

Overall (20%): An outstanding IPA. I bought this for the label, the collab, and the history lesson. I loved the newspaper and retro news article look to the can. It's not an IPA that will blow me away in epic fashion, but it's a top-notch brew that is refreshing and makes me want to keep drinking it. that alone is a big win. 4.5/5

Final Weighted Rating: 4.463/5