{"id":5695,"date":"2012-05-01T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:22:48","slug":"review-schlafly-hop-toddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/review-schlafly-hop-toddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Schlafly Hop Toddy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Schlafly says:<\/p>\n
“Schlafly No.20, Volume 2: Hop Toddy was created by the second generation of Schlafly brewers \u2013 James \u201cOtto\u201d Ottolini, now head of brewing operations at Schlafly Bottleworks, and Sara Hale and Jack Petrovic, who are involved in St. Louis\u2019 local food movement. Hop Toddy showcases our desire to experiment beyond the boundaries of traditional beer styles.<\/p>\n
This wheat ale is brewed with local wheat and honey, with a hint of concentrated lemon juice. A dry-hopping with Citra hops and aging in bourbon barrels makes it the beer equivalent of a hot toddy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Schlafly Hop Toddy<\/em>
\nAmerican Strong Ale, 9% ABV<\/em><\/p>\nAndrew:<\/strong>\u00a0Every once in a while, and trust me when I say it doesn’t happen very often, we run into a beer that makes us step back and say, “Dude, that is one weird beer.” Or maybe it’s more of a, “Really? They made a beer like that?”<\/p>\n
Which leads us to Schlafly’s Hop Toddy, a beer that is still making me scratch my head a bit because I seriously liked this beer, but man it was strange.<\/p>\n
No doubt many of our faithful readers have had a warm hot toddy in the dead of winter and basically that’s what we have here, in beer form.<\/p>\n
With a nose full of hops, honey and grapefruit and a flavor profile of lemon tea or more accurately an Arnold Palmer (though, the alcoholic version of that would be the John Daly), the Hop Toddy is a balanced, somewhat complex and very good beer.<\/p>\n
But man was it strange.<\/p>\n