Great Divide’s Fresh Hop Pale Ale

Sometimes, a beer is just a really really good beer. In that case, you know it  in the same way that you know it when you see it, except that it is taste, and not sight, that guides you. And, thus, the Great Divide‘s Fresh Hop Pale Ale:

Picture of Author holding up the bottle of Great Divide's Fresh Hop and a poured pint of the same

Great Divide's Fresh Hop, flash lit

This is a wet hopped beer, which is basically hops-pornography for beer geeks. Great Divide’s take on the… style? ingredient?… is perhaps even more, and more richly, aromatic than Sierra Nevada‘s take on the style. Combined with a completely quaffable  in-mouth experience, this is a marvelously remarkable use of our beloved hops in their untouched, virgin form.

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