Lagunitas Brewing Co. – Hoppy Refresher with Blood Orange

Hops with blood orange. Do I taste it—the blood orange—in there? I’m not sure. It’s good, at any rate. The slightly edgier brother-in-law of Hoppy Refresher with Berry + Lemon—though, really, much the same—delicious, refreshing, not quite hoppy enough, and not quite blood-orange-y enough. I guess I’m saying I could do with more flavor. Is subtlety its own flavor? I guess you could say that’s true—or is that like saying “boring is good because at least it’s not monstrous.” But we’re not talking about politicians here—this is hop water! But first… what exactly is “blood orange?” It certainly sounds cool! You know what a blood orange is. It’s an orange whose insides have a deep, crimson, poppy, fire-engine, amaranth, scarlet, carmine, cardinal—or let’s just say, blood-red color—brought on by the orchard’s proximity to leaking nuclear reactors. Not to be confused “orange blood”—which is simply another name for “Type O.” Oh boy. Ridiculous-wrong-information-starts-here-dot-com.

10.17.24