New Release: The Shape of Hops to Come
Dec 15, 2020
Tear back the veil and divine the future of beer with our good friends at Hopheads. A triple dry-hopped vision of Azacca, El Dorado and Citra, shimmering with citrus and tropical notes against a soft piney backdrop, it’s a true hopocalypse of hazy flavour you won’t soon forget.
Well well well… look what we have here!
First brought to life in 2019 as a very small, keg-only collaboration with the flower-power pioneers at Hopheads, the moment this beer was tapped was like the reveal of some mysterious artefact from an adventure movie or Sci Fi flick we’d seen as kids: we knew it held within it a strange power, as though something from another time or world had intersected ours…
Seriously, have a look at this thing. Triple dry-hopped with an extraordinary trifecta featuring Azacca (named for the Haitian god of agriculture, no less), the dual-natured dynamism of El Dorado, and good old Citra, this shapely beer really exemplifies the love of hops we share with our fellow ‘heads. How could we not share it?
Tropical but not sweet, at 6.5% ABV this is one to sip on as you contemplate the mysteries in the park beneath some majestic tree, or the sheer beauty of a sky full of clouds over the beach, or the profundity of “why do I have to work tomorrow” and “what even is beer?”
Close your eyes and picture it: citrus, mango, pineapple and pear dance passionately on the tongue… as oats soften the body in a supple counterstep… and all the while, a gentle tapestry of pine is woven in the background, furnishing the scene and setting of this most tasty trip. It’s ripe. It’s pillowy on its lingering, beautiful finish. It’s a damn good beer.
In short, it’s a classic Hazy style, for those who know, and those who seek to know. Get your glimpse of the Shape of Hops to Come with Akasha and Hopheads.
NSW Stockists
AB Hotel, Glebe
Blaxland Bottlemart, Blaxland
Blue Gum Hotel, Hornsby
Bull & Bush, Baulkham Hills
Craft Cartel, Wentworthville
Cutty Cellars, Crows Nest
D’vine Cellars, Wentworth Falls
Georgetown Cellarbrations, Georgetown
Le Pont Clareville, Clareville
Lock Stock & Bottle, Abbotsford
Midway Cellars, Denistone East
Murray’s Glenbrook Cellars, Glenbrook
Oldfield Cellars, West Gosford
Prince of Wales Bottle Shop, Merewether
Sackville Hotel Bottle Shop, Balmain
The Bottle O, Lambton
Tighes Hill Cellars, Tighes Hill
Tom’s Cellars, North Turramurra
Toongabbie Bottlemart, Toongabbie
Warners at the Bay Bottle Shop, Warners Bay
Cellarbrations Adamstown, Adamstown
Cellarbrations Drummoyne, Drummoyne
Beer Cartel, Artarmon
Quakers Hill Cellars, Quakers Hill
Bam Vino Cellars, Green Point
Leura Cellars, Leura
Lane Cellars, Orange
Parkhouse Hotel, Mona Vale
Cromer Cellars, Cromer
Northmead Cellars, Northmead
l maestro, East Killara
Stanmore Cellars, Stanmore
Thirsty Cellars, Picton
The Mill Hotel, Milperra
Plonk, Canberra
Sapphire Cellars, Merrimbula
Mollymook Fine Wine, Mollymook
Barnys Fine Wine and Ale, Rosebery
Liquor Emporium, St Peters
Strand Cellars, Croydon
Red Bottle, Alexandria
Camperdown Cellars, Cremorne
Page Bottler, Page
Bar 1989, Newtown
Liquor Legends, Ashfield
Liquor Emporium, Alexandria
Steves Cool Booze, Kingsford
Bondi Beach Cellars, Bondi
Union Hotel, Newtown
Camperdown Cellars, Darlinghurst
Little Bay Cellars, Little Bay
Lugarno Cellars, Lugarno
Porters Liquor, Alexandria
Red Bottle, Sussex Street
Red Bottle, Broadway
Crown West Cellars, Wollongong
Bellambi Hotel, Bellambi
Greystanes Cellars, Greystanes
Cringila Cellars, Cringila
VIC Stockists
A Point of Difference Liquor, Mitcham
Blackhearts & Sparrows
Bottlehouse, Balaclava
Carwyn Cellars, Thornbury
Cellarbrations at Tottenham
Cork the Liquor Store, Boronia & Ferntree Gully
Far Side Beers, Hawthorn East
Grape & Grain, Moorabbin
Grosvenor Hotel Cellars, St Kilda East
Hop Supply Co, Bendigo
Hopheads, Altona & Point Cook
Swords Select Wine Store, South Melb Market
The Goods Shed, Wodonga
The Otter’s Promise, Armadale
Union Wine Store, Ascot Vale
Village Vineyard Fine Booze, Fitzroy North
Williamstown Fine Wines, Williamstown
QLD Stockists
Cellarbrations Treetops Tavern, Burleigh Waters
Craft Wine Store, Red Hill
Craft Wine Store, Coorparoo
Cellarbrations Buderim, Buderim
Cellarbrations, Birtinya
Saccharomyces Bottle shop, Taringa
Harry Brown’s Eatons Hill, Eatons Hill
Montel Alehouse
Liquor Legends, Carina
Bottlemart Boondal, Sue’s Corner, Boondal
Vine Liquor Mart, Cleveland
Cellarbrations, Camp Hill
Cellarbrations Tingalpa
Yandina Hotel, Yandina
Malt Traders, CBD
