It’s an exciting week here for us at Idle Hands with two of our best selling releases dropping into cans tomorrow (Along with having our neighbors at Dom’s grilling on the patio!!), rather than take the focus away from those beers, I’d like to shine the spotlight on one of the components that we focus on with Six Seam; the hops, specifically in this case, Mosaic.
Certainly a more popular hop, notably appearing in beers such as Trillium’s Melcher St, Treehouse’s Alter Ego, and Foundation’s Epiphany. It’s is the daughter of Simcoe and Nugget hops, first released in 2012. We use the hop in a small handful of different beers and depending on the style, it has brought forth a variety of fruit focused flavors. Our dry hopped farmhouse ale, Proeme has both late-kettle and dry hop additions. With it’s drier body and estery yeast profile, Mosaic adds delightful fresh mixed berry and ripe stone fruit flavors and aromas. While Kill Your Idles might focus on fruit puree additions, Mosaic is added late in the kettle for a bit of berry character to compliment and add complexity to the fruit we choose to add. Finally, big bad Six Seam has our biggest dose of Mosaic out of them all. Dry hopped in two separate doses with other supporting hops to create layers of flavor and aroma. Intense aromas of blueberry, tangerine and papaya carry through to the palate and are joined by flavors of stone fruit, guava, and a touch of resin.
The results speak for themselves and this is a hop we will continue to spotlight and explore it’s flavor and aroma variety and potential, much like it’s namesake artwork suggests. All three of these Mosaic focused beers will be on draft in our Taproom tomorrow. Come on down and see what the wonderful Mosaic hop has allowed us to offer! — Lead Brewer Brett Bauer
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