Name – Samuel Adams Latitude 48 Deconstructed Ahtanum
Country – United States
Type – American IPA

So yesterday turned out to not be so bad.  A work around in order to remote to servers was done and all went well.  But today internet is still out at the office so again I’m working from home.  I’ve always dug when I work from home.  Some people say that the lose of human interaction can take it’s toll on people but I have never found that as such.

But for today’s review I have another in the Deconstructed series.  Today we go with Ahtanum.  It’s a hop variety that I don’t know an awful lot about but I have heard of it before as opposed to Zeus which I talked about before.

I pour it into my nonic pint glass and it arrives a lot like the others with a clear orange color.  There a good sized white head on top but it fades fast and leaves a small amount of lacing.

I get a good amount of orange in the nose along with some pine for the hop profile.  There is a bit of caramel in there to balance it out but it’s not super present.

The taste has a bitter orange peel taste upfront before it turns piney.  There is a biscuit and caramel like presence in the back before it goes bitter again in the aftertaste.

I’ve heard that this hop is used predominately in dry hopping of beers and I can absolutely get that from the taste.  A lot of bitter tastes to it.  But I really enjoyed it.  This is probably my favorite of the ones I’ve had so far.

So that’s 3 down and 2 to go on the Latitude 48 Deconstructed pack.  Tomorrow I’ll bring you the Hallertau Mittelfrueh and then Saturday wrap things up with Simcoe.  Hope you have a good Thursday!

Grade – B+