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<\/a>“Repo Man”<\/p><\/div>\n
Suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o’ shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n So I was on a Golf Road Warriors trip to Fort Myers recently where\u2014while eating a plate of shrimp, incidentally\u2014we talked about the atmospheric refractive phenomenon of the green flash, and I was thinking it would have been nice if the beer menu had something from the Green Flash Brewing Company. Which it did not, and I wrote just that in a post on Bell\u2019s Oberon Ale<\/a>.<\/p>\n This was in late April. Shortly after I returned home a bundle arrived\u2014out of the blue\u2014from the Green Flash Brewing Company, a bunch o\u2019 their beers. There was an explanation: introduction of a new beer, new labeling for the entire line, extended national reach.<\/p>\n And the name of the new beer? Road Warrior.<\/p>\n Green Flash beers<\/p><\/div>\n Okay. No point in fighting it, either. I began agreeably working my way through the lineup, as long as I was in the mood for strong, hoppy beers. There was the West Coast Double IPA (8.1% ABV), Hop Head Red Double IPA (8.1%), Double Stout (8.8%), and the Road Warrior, an Imperial Rye India Pale Ale clocking in at 9%.<\/p>\n Another of their popular beers, an Imperial IPA of 9.5%, is called Palate Wrecker, which might be the effect if one made a steady diet of these brews.<\/p>\n Alcoholism might be another, if attention is not paid. These are all strong beers, but alarmingly tasty. Timid Green Flash is not. As a summer seasonal, the Road Warrior barrels right over the mini-trend of summer session IPAs (or more accurately, lower-than-has-lately-been-normal-ABVs for IPAs).<\/p>\n Green Flash Road Warrior<\/p><\/div>\n The name has nothing to do with golf, but everything to do with the company\u2019s sales force, according to company CEO Mike Hinkley, who founded the company in 2002 with his wife, Lisa Hinkley. The beer was originally released as an Imperial Red Rye in a 2013 Hop Odyssey series and, \u201cUltimately, our sales team pushed for the beer to be produced on a larger scale. They are a convincing bunch so we had no choice but to listen. We named the beer Road Warrior\u2026 as a nod to the team\u2019s tireless efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the company recently announced it would start selling in Hawaii, that leaves only Utah on the outs.<\/p>\n Brewmaster Chuck Silva said, \u201cThis is quite possibly the most amount of flavor that can be packed into a glass of red ale,\u201d and he is quite possibly right. The beer pours a frothy reddish copper, and the nose immediately blossoms with a wild bouquet of flowery and fruity hoppiness, a touch of mown grass, so fresh it\u2019s like stepping into a brewery\u2019s hop storage room. Most of the credit here goes to the dry-hopping with Mosaic and Amarillo. The palate is simultaneously sweet and tangy, a chewy maltiness quickly tangling with the hop bite. (Mosaic and Columbus go into the brewkettle.) One 22-ounce bottle was a sufficient and pleasant night\u2019s work for me.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>