Earlier this year, our co-founder Matt was lucky enough to be able to visit the team at @teenage_brewing in Japan for some beers and some damn fine ramen recommendations. Their beautiful brewery and taproom is located in the Hiki District of Saitama province about an hour and a half from Tokyo. The team at Teenage had been following our journey at Range for some time and were particular fans of our Dripping In Green series.
We decided to brew a biiiig and juicy DDH DIPA with them for the Hops from Nihon events which sees 6 breweries from Australia collaborate with 6 breweries from Japan. The beer uses the same brewing techniques as our Dripping series but we've added in some of our favourite Kiwi and Aussie hops as well.
The resulting beer is a big, bold and absolutely banging expression of hops. A deep haze and luxurious body combine with popping aromas and juicy flavours to bring wave after wave of pure hop perfection. Notes of white peach, mango sorbet, loads of passionfruit creaminess and a healthy dose of orange sherbet. And would you just look at that colour?!
A cool note about the artwork for this one is it's also a collab! The Teenage designer sent through a collection of designs, drawings and artwork, which our designer Jess then put into our own Teenage-style scrapbook label art.
今年初め、私たちの共同創設者マットは幸運にも、日本の @teenage_brewing のチームを訪問し、ビールを飲んだり、とびきり美味しいラーメンを勧めてもらったりすることができました。彼らの美しい醸造所とタップルームは、東京から約1時間半の埼玉県比企郡にあります。Teenage のチームは、私たちの Range での道のりにしばらく関心を持っていて、特に私たちの Dripping In Green シリーズのファンでした。