Road trip, anyone? Warrior hop experiment night at San Francisco's Toronado Pub.

My good friend Ed Parish, recently returned from an apparently exhilarating trip to the Bay Area, has forwarded this notice from the world-famous Toronado Pub in San Francisco.

The varietal hop experiment outlined here is the perfect illustration of why it's so much fun to be in the craft beer business. What would mainstream breweries do in a similar vein? Serve the same beer in six different cans? To six different focus group targets?

Some choice ... but that's the swillocracy for you.

At any rate, the only bad thing about reading this press release is that I want to taste each beer and can't.

WARRIOR HOP EXPERIMENT NIGHT AT TORONADO

All Six Beers On Draught

6. BREWERIES
5. DIFFERENT BASE MALTS
4. FERMENTATION TEMPERATURES
3. UNFILTERED BEERS
2. YEAST STRAINS
1. HOP

Six breweries decided to try an experiment. What would happen if each brewery were to use their own malt, yeast and water and set up guidelines to follow but use only one hop? This is the result of the "WARRIOR HOP EXPERIMENT."

Guidelines
93% 2-row Malt
4% Munich Malt
3% Crystal 45 Malt
60 IBU's
O.G.-16.5*P
F.G.-3.0-3.5
6.8%ABV

Drake's Brewing Company
2-Row Malt- Crisp
Crystal Malt- Crisp
Munich Malt- Durst
Yeast- White Labs 001
Original Gravity- 16.3*P (SG 1.063)
Terminal Gravity- 3.5*P (SG 1.014)
Mash Temperature- 152*F
Fermentation Temperature- 65*F

Marin Brewing Company
2-Row Malt- Gambrinus
Crystal Malt- Thomas Faucet
Munich Malt- Gambrinus
Yeast- White Labs 002
Original Gravity- 16.5*P (SG 1.066)
Terminal Gravity- 3.5*P (SG 1.014)
Mash Temperature- 154*F
Fermentation Temperature- 67*F

Magnolia Pub and Brewery
2-Row - Thomas Faucet Maris Otter
Crystal Malt- Thomas Faucet
Munich Malt- Weyerman type 1
Yeast- White Labs 002
Original Gravity- 16.3*P (SG 1.065)
Terminal Gravity- 5.2*P (SG 1.021)
Mash Temperature- 150*F
Fermentation Temperature- 65*F

Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse
2-Row Malt- Crisp
Crystal Malt- Crisp
Munich Malt- Gambrinus
Yeast- White Labs 002
Original Gravity- 16.6*P (SG 1.068)
Terminal Gravity- 3.0*P (SG 1.012)
Mash Temperature- 150*F
Fermentation Temperature- 67*F

21st Amendment Brewery, Restaurant, Bar
2-Row Malt- Rahr
Crystal Malt- Crisp
Munich Malt- Crisp
Yeast- White Labs 001
Original Gravity- 16.5*P (SG 1.065)
Terminal Gravity- 3.3*P (SG 1.011)
Mash Temperature- 158*F
Fermentation Temperature- 72*F

Bison Brewing Company
2-Row Malt- Briess organic
Crystal Malt- Briess organic C-40
Munich Malt- Briess organic
Yeast- White Labs 001
Original Gravity- 16.3*P (SG 1.063)
Terminal Gravity- 3.5*P (SG 1.014)
Mash Temperature- 154*F
Fermentation Temperature- 68*F

Location: Toronado, 547 Haight, San Francisco, California
Time(s): 6:00 PM
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