Unchained #18: Hop Silo

Today we’re flipping the ignition switch on a heretofore unseen consequence of science. Summit Brewing Company’s canned Hop Silo DIPA from their Unchained series is their first foray into the rapidly expanding world of explosively hopped beers. It is indeed a molecular powder keg of hop flavor (five kinds), but it’s justified by a trio of well-bonded malts.

Cans are on the up and up for flavorful beer, and flavors are on the rise within them. There will be casualties along the way, but it’s for the greater good of freedom-loving taste buds around the world.

-- Jim Dykstra