Beer Review: CTZ Single Hop

March 30th, 2010

Bitter Root Brewing in Hamilton, Montana

For our second day of Bitter Root Week, we’ll be looking at a recent special brew from Bitter Root Brewing: the CTZ Single Hop Pale Ale. The CTZ Single Hop is brewed, as the name would suggest, using only CTZ hops. There have been a few breweries around the state doing such brews, which I think is great for consumers because it helps to educate us on the difference between hop varieties. One great example of late is the Saphir IPA from Blackfoot River, which was brewed just like their regular Single Malt IPA, but with Saphir hops in place of the usual Simcoe and Cascade. In the taproom, they were even serving 8 oz. of each side-by-side so patrons could experience the difference. I love to see brewers and breweries interested in not only making good beer, but also working to make good beer drinkers! So to both Bitter Root and Blackfoot River Breweries I endow a BarBEERians Badge of Brewing Excellence for their efforts to make us all more educated beer drinkers. Alas, I digress, now back tot he meat of the post my review of the CTZ Single Hop from Bitter Root Brewery!

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Montana Monday: Power of 10 Imperial IPA

March 29th, 2010

Bitter Root Brewing in Hamilton, Montana

I’m going to try something a little different this week guys, and I’m hoping it goes well. If you enjoy it, let me know. If you all don’t like, well let me know that too. Anyway, it is Bitter Root Brewing week here at BarBEERians, so we will be featuring reviews of their beers, current news, and even a review of their recent beer paired dinner! Kicking it off is a review of their Power of Ten Imperial IPA they brewed last fall to celebrate the increase in legal ABV for beer in Montana. One of the other activities I am involved in is coaching a middle school math team, so as far as I’m concerned the concept of the Power of Ten IPA is simply genius. It is an Imperial IPA with an ABV just under 10%, 100 IBUs, and is their 1000th brew! Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! Read the rest of this entry »

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