Brewer: Uinta Brewing Company
Beer: Hop Nosh Tangerine IPA
Alcohol Content by Volume: 7.30%
Dear Hop Nosh Tangerine,
I’m writing to you on Sunday night. It’s opening day for Major League Baseball. You may not be familiar with the sport, but if you are, tonight’s game is Cubs versus Cardinals. I was thirsty so I headed to the fridge. I searched for a beer. Behind the mayonnaise? Nothing. Tucked away in the produce drawer? Negative. WAIT… there… wedged between the economy-sized bottle of soy sauce and the little plastic lemon filled with the juice of its likeness… A BEER!
It’s you.
I remember you. I bought you two weeks ago. You disappeared and I just assumed my wife drank you. She does that sometimes.
I pop your top. Citrus and fragrant flowers tickle my nostrils. I pour you into my favorite pint glass. Amber, the color I’d expect to find a 60 million-year-old mosquito embedded in. I taste you… just a little at first for savoring purposes… and although the tangerine is there, it’s modest and not overpowering. The surprise maltyness mingles nicely, just like the large bottle of soy sauce and the little plastic lemon always seem at home together in the door’s interior shelf. (Before you came between them, of course.)
By the time I’ve finished you… which is in no time at all… the first pitch has yet to even happen. The game is still to be, but you are already gone.
I miss you, Hop Nosh Tangerine. I miss you so.
Sincerely
Drunken Emoji
PS: Please don’t tell my wife about us. She will never understand.
