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Most people celebrate Easter with a bright and early Easter morning church service, Easter bonnets and ridiculously poofy children's dresses, extremely fragrant white lilies, plastic eggs hidden throughout your yard which you will inevitably end up finding for the next 6-months and multi-colored Peeps, which I find to be the most disgusting candy on Earth, right up there next to Smarties. Did you know that Peeps were first invented and marketed in 1953? And in 1958 someone got the
brilliant idea to make Peeps for other holiday occasions such as Halloween, followed a few years later by snowmen and Christmas trees and by Peep footballs in 1975 and sugar-free Peeps in 2007. Who knew?!?!?
At our house this year we celebrated Easter with all the above things (minus the bonnets, poofy kid dresses, lilies, and Peeps) but also added in a bottle of delicious brew in the late afternoon. To play on the Easter theme, we opened a bottle of the Hop Henge Experimental IPA (8.5% ABV) from Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon.
According to the Deschutes website, "
Hop Henge Experimental IPA is our annual exercise in IBU escalation. An
outrageous amount of Centennial and Cascade hops are added to each
barrel, with a heavy dry-hop presence as well. It is dense and
muscular, with a blend of crystal, pale and carastan malts creating an
overall biscuity characteristic. It’s all hop, no apologies."
I was a little intimidated by this beer because of the name and the super hop smell after first opening the bottle. However, I was surprised to really enjoy this beer, especially as it began to warm to room temperature. It had a good balance of citrus and hops. The Husband and my sister also enjoyed this beer very much and all tasting parties would buy this again.
On a side note, after opening the bottle, Katie convinced her dad (i.e. The Husband) to let her give him a pedicure (
why anyone would WANT to do this for free is way beyond my ability to understand) at her pretend salon in our kitchen. So he walked into her "salon" and sat down on our barstool for his very first pedicure. I didn't get a picture of his toenails after the pedicure but believe me when I tell you that they are were decorated with a lot of love and are very very beautiful. Lucky for him she did two coats.
