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Mills River, NC
100 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River, NC 287321 (828) 681-5300
Chico, CA
1075 East 20th Street, Chico, CA 959281 (530) 893-3520
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    Mills River, NC
    100 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River, NC 287321 (828) 681-5300
    Chico, CA
    1075 East 20th Street, Chico, CA 959281 (530) 893-3520

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    Absurdly aggressive yet refined, a dapper brute of the beer world.
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    Max Out The Hops

    Hoptimum’s 2024 appearance blends old-school and new-school hops: Chinook, Citra, CTZ, Ekuanot, Idaho 7, and Magnum varieties. The notes of sweet citrus and sticky pine are a balancing act of fruity versus in your face.
     

    The soaring ABV and IBU find balance in the sturdy malt body, yet this Triple IPA still drinks crisp and smooth, just like Hoptimum’s dapper outfit.

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    The soaring ABV and IBU find balance in the sturdy malt body, yet this Triple IPA still drinks crisp and smooth, just like Hoptimum’s dapper outfit.

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    Hoptimum

    Fancy seeing me here! After all, the place can hardly hold 11% — I’m scraping the rafters. Makes for a good view, and it’s clear when a room needs what I’ve got in spades: fruity, dank, and devilishly hoppy flavor. Yo...

    Fancy seeing me here! After all, the place can hardly hold 11% — I’m scraping the rafters. Makes for a good view, and it’s clear when a room needs what I’ve got in spades: fruity, dank, and devilishly hoppy flavor. Your night is looking up. Savor it and don’t blink because I like to vanish in a puff of lupulin dust.

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    Fancy seeing me here! After all, the place can hardly hold 11% — I’m scraping the rafters. Makes for a good view, and it’s clear when a room needs what I’ve got in spades: fruity, dank, and devilishly hoppy flavor. Yo...

    style

    IPA

    abv

    11%

    ibu

    75

    Malts

    Two-row Pale, White Wheat

    Hops

    Chinook, Citra, CTZ, Ekuanot, Idaho 7, Magnum

    Yeast

    Ale

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    A full glass and a bottle of Hoptimum Triple IPA on a dark table with a bottle cap in the foreground

    alcohol by volume

    11%

    bitterness units

    75

    carbs (grams)

    23

    calories

    322

    protein

    3.7

    Malts

    Two-row Pale, White Wheat

    Hops

    Chinook, Citra, CTZ, Ekuanot, Idaho 7, Magnum

    Yeast

    Ale

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    Hop Torpedos in the brewhouse
    How It Works

    The Hop Torpedo

    Dry hopping is a way to give beer more flavor and aroma, not more bitterness. A traditional method is filling nylon sacks with hops and suspending them in fermentation tanks. But sometimes we’d remove those sacks — even weeks later — and they’d be dry in the middle! With the Hop Torpedo, we maximize every hop. Beer circulates out of a fermenter, flows through the column of hops, and back into the tank. By adjusting the time, temperature and speed of circulation, we can control the aromas and flavors in a finished beer.

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