A crossover between beer and distilled spirits: Craft gin with a focus on hop aromas, "Off Trail - Azeotrope HOP Authenticity," available exclusively on Tuesday, October 3rd
Off Trail - Azeotrope, a brand that challenges itself with innovative distilled spirits production, will be selling a limited edition craft gin called Off Trail - Azeotrope HOP Authenticity, which focuses on hops, a beer ingredient, from Tuesday , October 3, 2023 .
"Off Trail - Azeotrope" was launched in 2021 as a spin-off project of "Off Trail," a brand that takes on the challenge of brewing beer using microorganisms, primarily through barrel aging (wooden barrel aging). It is a crossover brand between beer and distilled spirits that takes on the challenge of creating innovative spirits and liqueurs, leveraging the fermentation and barrel aging know-how cultivated through beer brewing.
This time, we will be focusing on hops, an ingredient in beer. We will be distilling our own beer that was no longer in stock and using hops as botanicals to create Beer Distilled Gin.
Leveraging our unique knowledge gained through research and challenges into the "extraction of aromatic components" of hops, which has been gaining attention in beer brewing in recent years, we have extracted the hop aroma using two approaches: "extracting the hop flavor contained in the raw beer" and "extracting hop aroma added as a botanical."
Ross Beer is based on a neutral raw liquor that is distilled twice in a pot still at the Genryu Brewery in Kosuge Village, Yamanashi Prefecture, bringing out the hop character. The raw liquor is cut in the middle to extract only the best parts, improving the quality of the liquor even more than before.
The hops are a blend of fresh hops from Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture, and American hops. The fresh hops include not only cones but also a small amount of ivy and leaves to create a grassy aroma. The American hops used are Idaho 7, which brings out aromas of papaya and orange.
" Off Trail -Azeotrope HOP Authenticity ," which truly embodies the brand concept of "a crossover between beer and distilled spirits," will be available in limited quantities on the Far Yeast Brewing official web store from 12:00 on Tuesday, October 3rd. Purchases on the official web store and shipments to beer bars, restaurants, and liquor stores nationwide will begin sequentially from Wednesday, October 4th .
[Product overview]
Off Trail -Azeotrope HOP Authenticity
(Off-Trail Azeotrope Hop Authenticity)
Sales start date: Tuesday, October 3rd
Suggested retail price: Open price
Ingredients: Domestically produced (spirits)
Alcohol content: 47.0%
Style: Beer Distilled Gin
Item: Liqueur
Contents: 500ml bottle
*Click here to purchase from the online store: https://faryeast.stores.jp/
Launched in October 2021, this craft spirits brand crosses the boundaries between beer and distilled spirits. As a spin-off of "Off Trail," a cutting-edge beer brewing project that utilizes microbial barrel aging techniques, the brand is exploring innovative spirits and liqueurs. Focusing on genever-style spirits, which are malt-derived distilled spirits aged in barrels, the brand aims to bring a breath of fresh air to the distilled spirits world by leveraging the fermentation and barrel aging know-how cultivated through beer brewing. "Azeotrope" refers to the phenomenon of two liquids with different boiling points boiling together while maintaining their composition when mixed in a certain ratio, creating an azeotropic mixture. The name evokes the symbiosis of beer and spirits, our core businesses.
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