“It’s just so dank and resinous that with lupulin you pick it up in the beer immediately,” Dunbabin said. Lupulin provides exactly the kind of trademark taste King Harbor Brewing strives to create in all its beers, he said - a bright, clear, tropical fruitiness that’s characteristic of California IPA’s.Īnd it is a natural progression of what some call an arms race of sorts among West Coast brewers to create the definitive huge, smooth IPA. So I love it I’m going to take a bunch home today.”
“Not to be dramatic, but this is my favorite IPA I’ve ever made. “This is the most hops I’ve ever used in a beer because it doesn’t absolutely ruin my yield,” he said. Lupulin is a new product - it was launched earlier this year - so it’s still relatively unknown.īut McDaniel already believes the ingredient will become a fixture at the brewery. “(With lupulin) they separate all those out so all you’re getting is pineapple, mango, tropical - with none of those other flavors - so it’s an intensely, fruity, almost candy-like fruitiness without any of the grassy, vegetable, lawn clippings-type flavor.” “When you use a great amount of hops, you taste all that great hops flavor, but you’re starting to get hints of plant matter, a little bit like chewing on a leaf,” said brewer Phil McDaniel. Kief, too, is the most potent part of a marijuana plant with a higher concentration of psychoactive cannabinoids that’s often sprinkled atop some regular pot for an extra kick.Īnd both provide an intense taste sensation, too, especially in a West Coast IPA that has brewers striving for a rich, big, floral or fruity taste without lingering bitterness. Kief and lupulin powder are produced much the same way, too, by essentially drying them out and separating them from the rest of the plant, be it marijuana or hops.Īccording to craft brew industry bible Beer Advocate, lupulin is manufactured by chilling the plants in a nitrogen atmosphere, producing an oil-rich concentrate that’s got a much more potent character than hops. “I don’t know anything about marijuana,” he added.
Turns out hops and marijuana do in fact share a common chemical compound called terpenes, which gives each plant a smell and appearance that is a lot alike. Lupulin IPA is believed to be the first craft beer brewed in the South Bay with lupulin powder, which is to hops - the primary ingredient in beer - what something called kief is to marijuana. “It’s insane,” laughed brewery co-founder Tom Dunbabin of the 7.5 percent alcohol by volume creation.Īvailable in cans or on draft in the twin brewery tap rooms at 182nd Street in Redondo Beach and the International Boardwalk on the waterfront itself, the IPA was released Friday afternoon just in time for the long holiday weekend. You might think so after tasting King Harbor Brewing Co.’s Lupulin IPA, a dank, juicy, intense India Pale Ale that threatens to overwhelm the taste buds with a redolent, almost piquant, fruit-forward richness that’s devoid of bitterness. Is the logical evolution of the rapidly growing craft beer and recently legalized marijuana industries a convergence that could provide a potent pint of liquid pot?
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