Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailBeer

Hopped with a total of 5 different hops, and using four malts, Chad & Bart blended their individual IPA recipes (each using the same base IPA recipe but different hops) to come up with this week’s NoDable Series Release.

The Australian Topaz™ hop was developed in the 1980s, and boasts a worldly mélange of English, continental European and North American roots. With grassy character and complex spice and fruit notes, its high alpha acid content provides serious flavor depth to any beer – making this a pale ale for true hop lovers.

This strong, Baltic-style Porter has a rich, velvety mouthfeel with notes of bakers chocolate and molasses.

Contrary to popular myth English export beers were not necessarily made any strong than regular beers in order to ensure they survived the rigours of sea travel. They were made with more hops and this beer from a Barclay Perkins recipe from 1805 is a fascinating example. At only 4.8% this was a weak beer for the period, but, boy is it hoppy, 3.6 pounds of hops per barrel to be precise. This beer needs a degree of maturation to soften the bitterness. A sea journey to India should just about do it.

Torchlight is what light beer is supposed to taste like. It is inspired by the Munich Helles using Pilsner malt and German hops to create a crisp, yet flavorful pint. Truly a taste of Bavaria right here at home.

Open a bottle of Tornado and get blown away by the natural power of the Citra hop. Crafted with a robust malt character to compliment the tropical fruit and resinous pine of the Citra hop.

A smokey amber ale designed in collaboration with Chef John Gorham of Toro Bravo, this beer is intended to pair with his restaurant’s spicy, rich, and layered tapas menu. For additional resonance between the beer and John’s food, we used a touch of Espelette pepper in the brew kettle.

Torpedo Pilsner is a hop-forward take on the crisp classic lager. We and the folks at Firestone Walker share a passion for New Zealand hop varietals, so we loaded our legendary Hop Torpedo with southern hemisphere hops for a fruity, floral twist on the pilsner style. Just down the road from us in California’s Central Coast wine country, this rock star brewery has earned “Mid-size Brewery of the Year” at the World Beer Cup four times. Like us, Firestone is passionate about hops. Their skill with the ingredient shines in their Pale Series and elsewhere in a long beer lineup driven by a premier brewing team.

When you are in the mood for a full-flavored, hoppy beer, but not the higher alcohol of an IPA, Torque is the perfect beer. Huge amounts of late and dry hopping give it its fresh nose, and a careful blend of malts provide just enough balance to finish off a working lunch.

A Tortured Path cider was inspired by ciders from Somerset, UK. This dry cider is funky, with medicinal and earthy notes…made from bittersharp and bittersweet apple varieties blended with Golden Russet this is for the true cider lover.