Well, you thought it had finished... and in truth, so did we.... but no, for one last time (maybe...), we present a Deutsch Projekt beer!
This series of brews - tomorrow's is number 5 - was devised to showcase the new wave of German hops which are challenging the accepted wisdom that all German hops taste like chewing a privet hedge (well, to be fair most of them do...) and that there might be something else to offer in the hop department from the world's biggest hop producing nation, namely some new world-esque flavours.
All beers have had a very similar - sometimes identical - malt base (mainly low colour Propino with a touch of wheat and Melanoidin), and a 3 out of the 4 have had the same base hop (Opal) to keep comparisons between the hops fair.
So far, we've had....
1 - Mandarina Bavaria; orangey, green tea, flowery
2 - Huell Melon; wild strawberry, subtle
3 - Hallertauer Blanc; lean, leafy, some citrus and petrol
4 - German Cascade; this had German Cascade as the base hops too; citrus, tangerine, green tea.
And there we thought it would end. However, we'd used Opal as the base hop in brews 1 to 3 which had caused a flutter of interest as it seemed to be quite orangey and characterful despite not being one of the "new wave" hops, albeit it's only 12 years old! So, a quick board meeting later, and DP5 was on the cards...
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