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Harpoon Glacier Harvest Wet Hop Beer


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64
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An American Pale Ale brewed by
Harpoon Brewery

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
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703.24/5.03.23/5.0Special6.7%56.5Lager glass, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
The 20th installment of the Harpoon 100 Barrel Series has been brewed to celebrate the annual hop harvest. Harpoon Glacier Harvest Wet Hop beer is a pale ale made with fresh hops picked just hours before being tossed into the brew. Wet hop beers are brewed using fresh, wet (hops contain about 60% moisture when they are first picked) hops instead of traditional dried hops. Typically, when hops are picked they are quickly dried and refrigerated to make them more suitable and consistent for brewing. This process allows brewers to use hops that were harvested in the fall throughout the following year. Alternatively, wet hops need to be used within hours of their being harvested or they will begin to rapidly degrade. Wet hops retain some of their natural oils and volatile flavors that dissipate when dried. This yields an immersed, intense hop flavor in the beer. Harpoon brewer Ray Dobens, creator of the beer, harvested the Glacier hops in Seneca New York the morning of August 13th and immediately drove them back to Boston that very afternoon in a refrigerated truck. Ray added the newly harvested hops to the brew within hours after the harvest. The fresh hops were added to a malty, copper-colored ale. The combination is a pleasing blend of fresh hop flavor and sweet malt.

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 acearl (175), Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20

Jan 8, 2008  
220 ozer for Christmas present...Nice packaging but not much else to remember...Fairly hoppy, decent amber hue, expected more but was very easy to drink, minimal citrus, not from the land of hops.

 jah noth (941), Rochester, New York, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/513/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Muted aroma of grass and caramel. Light gold in color, little head. Rich and malty, slight herbal, but not overpowering. You can drink it, but like a lot of harpoons, subpar.


 michael-pollack (1484), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 3, 2008  
22oz. Bottle: Aroma of hops, pine, toasted caramel malts, resin, fruit, herbs, vegetables, and platicy chemical. Poured amber in color with a large, dense, creamy, off-white head that lasted throughout. Clear. Very sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is slightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of hops, caramel, malts, pine, herbs, vegetables, and plastic. Medium body. Lightly sticky texture. Average carbonation. Caramel, hop, and plastic finish.


 chronictonic (362), Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/54/102/59/20
Oct 2, 2008  
copper orange pour, small white head. Little to no aroma - slightly clovey. Flavor is unremarkable and not that enjoyable. No real hop flavor - medium bitterness with a grainy finish.


 blipp (818), Grand Island, New York, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 30, 2008  
Bottle. Pours clear gold with an off white head. The aroma has caramel malt and floral/citric hops. The flavor is just a tiny bit boozy with caramel and hops. Not bad.


 mansquito (643), Boston/Philadelphia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Sep 25, 2008  
Got this out of the tap at Lower Depths in Kenmore. It pours an orange body and the head leaves a little bit of lacing. The aroma is uncomplicated heavy hops. The taste was mostly of flowery hops. The finish of the beer was a little sweet and tasted almost like bubblegum. Pretty light, but rather smooth palate. Another good installment to the 100 barrel series.



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