God reached his hand down from the sky…and the Hop Quality Group breeding program swatted it away with a middle finger while saying “WE ARE SCIENTISTS MOTHERFUCKER.” Ok maybe that’s a little egregious/aggressive…but we are LEGIT THRILLED to finally brew with HQG 4 – an experimental public(!) variety we’ve championed since 2019, though it’s been in the pipeline as a baby since 2015 when it was known as HQG2015034-023. This harvest, we finally had enough of it to brew with – shout out to Crosby, CLS and Jackson farms for planting an acre each – and we went full send with it into a big batch of IPA. Afterall, it was ranked 2nd out of 32 blindly judged hops at the BA’s Hopsource this past year. Full disclosure, there’s a smidge of Citra and Mosaic in there, but this beer is a whopping 70% of HQG 4. So bend your knees and bow your heads, drink your babies, here’s your future.