Sammy’s Beach Bar & Grill, Maui Kahului Airport, 1 Lanui Circle, Kahului, Maui, Hawaii

Ola Brew, 1177 Kilauea Avenue, Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii

Big Island Brewhaus, 64-1066 Hawai'i Belt Road, Waimea, Big Island, Hawaii

Kona Brewing Company, 74-5612 Pawai Place, Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii

Laniakea Cafe, Terminal 1, Kona International Airport, 73-200 Kupipi Street, Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii

Stinger Ray’s Tropical Bar & Grill, Near Gate 23, Terminal 2, Daniel K Inouye International Airport, 300 Rogers Boulevard, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

PUB UPDATES:

• SHEFFIELD TAP, SHEFFIELD: My tradition every year now, before starting off my American holiday, is to have a half pint here while waiting for my train to Manchester Airport. So this year I first had a taste of Duohop (4.6% ABV, Ampersand Brew Co, Diss, Norfolk), brewed with Mosaic and Simcoe hops. For that slightly chunky ABV this wasn’t quite as zoomily hoppy as I would have liked. So I went for a half of Toha New Zealand Pale (3.6% ABV, Tapped Brewing, Sheffield, South Yorkshire). Brewed with Nelson Sauvin and Superdeic hops, this was very yummily hoppy in a gentle way, just right for preparing me for taking off on five weeks of tasting American craft beers. It wasn’t too crowded in the pub on this Sunday afternoon, so I got to sit at a table by the window looking out at the trains coming and going on Platform 1.
  
  
• BALLAST POINT, LONG BEACH: When I was in Long Beach in May, one afternoon my friend Betsy and I headed over to this scenic brewpub for lunch and a pint. Sadly the main patio area was closed on this day for some sort of event, and the main bar was filled to the brim with young student types, and there was crap dance music blasting everywhere.
  
  Fortunately we managed to find slightly quieter seats at the far end of the bar near the front entrance. Both Betsy and I had pints of the classic Sculpin’ IPA (7.0% ABV, Ballast Point Brewing Company, San Diego, California), and we both ordered the fish tacos, as there was little choice on the current menu. I thought the tacos were fine, but Betsy thought they needed more salt, and she insisted on telling the barman, hoping he would relay the information to the cook. I’m not really sure that on this busy day he would think to do this, as we were obviously the only customers over the age of 30 in the place. I do hope this isn’t the trend of this Long Beach waterfront brewpub.
  
  
• BELMONT BREWING, LONG BEACH: I hadn’t been to this brewpub in fifteen years, but since it’s located at the foot of the Belmont Pier, I suggested it as an option for lunch with my old friend Alex and his wife Rae, who live in ocean-distant Brea. After I figured out the slightly complicated car park machine--which, like I’ve recently discovered with European lock boxes, door locks, and coffee machines, simply requires careful, patient persistence--the three of us sat out on the brewery’s deck, right on the beach, with a great view to one side of the beach and the Queen Mary and the harbour in the distance. On this occasion the old Spruce Goose Dome, which looks like half of a giant golf ball, was obscured by a large cruise ship.
  
  As I didn’t want to start my day with a higher-ABV pint of beer, I had an Imperial pint of Pirate’s Port Pale Ale (4.8% ABV, Belmont Brewing Company, Long Beach, California), an unfiltered beer with Cascade and Citra hops, while both Alex and Rae had 16-ounce pints of Marathon (4.5% ABV), an easy-drinking light ale and one of the brewery’s flagship beers. I was impressed by and quite happy with my Pirate’s Port, because it was satisfyingly hoppy and quite full-bodied. For lunch Rae had the fish and chips, which she said were very good, and Alex and I each had poke bowls, because he’s watching what he eats, and I’d only just discovered poke in Hawaii and fell in love with it. The tuna was a bit stringy, but the salmon and shrimp were tender and lovely, and edamame beans always please me. And I love eating things with chopsticks, which were provided. I mean, I prefer eating my salads with chopsticks, so I was quite happy. While we were sipping our pints and dining, Rae asked what the islands were off the coast, so it gave me a chance to be the classic Long Beach native and explain that they’re all oil islands, built in 1965 and named after astronauts who lost their lives in the service of NASA. We were currently seeing the island named after Ed White, and the islands named after Roger B Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and Ted Freeman were off in the distance. The acronym THUMS is also used, which stands for Texaco, Humble, Unocal, Mobil, and Shell, the parent oil companies.
  
  Following our lunch and pint, we naturally walked out on the Belmont Pier, as it’s right there, and well, one simply has to.
  
  Belmont Brewing currently offers both American and Imperial pints, tasters, and 16-ounce and 32-ounce growlers to take away. So they’ve come a long way since those early days, and I will remember to visit the place again next time I’m in Long Beach.
  
  
• CRUSADER BREWING, BAKERSFIELD: While I was in Bakersfield on this trip, my unofficial brother Kim and I naturally had to stop in here. This time we both went for pints of Mercy Ukrainian Golden Ale (6.5% ABV, Crusader Brewing, Bakersfield, California), not only because Ukraine is so topical right now, but because this beer is just good. Since its initial inception it’s transmogrified into a very pleasant, very Eastern European brew, and that particular taste is from the East Kent Gold hops. We also had tastes of some of the gorgeous beers in development, including another gold ale and a dark oak-aged beer. Dead Man’s Tribute, which supposedly would be available soon, was absolutely gorgeous. On this visit Kim and I chatted with co-owner Bailey, as Richard was playing some sort of serious card game with several other guys. At some point Richard suddenly appeared out of nowhere and set out tasters of Vindication (7.2% ABV). This new creation, a Belgian dubble, was very powerful, which Kim obviously liked. Whenever we visit, Richard is always so liberal with the number of samples he puts out for us. It was very quiet on this Saturday afternoon. Sadly Bailey, who we had only just met, is leaving soon, moving with his family to Texas. It will be sad to see him go.
  
  On our second visit a few days later I went for a pint of Aquila Pilzner (5.2% ABV, Crusader), brewed with Magnum hops. This was a nice change.
  
  
• TEMBLOR BREWING, BAKERSFIELD: At the end of my two-week stay at my sibling group’s house in Bakersfield, my friend Mistah Rick showed up the night before the two of us would be taking off to drive up north. So naturally we decided to go out for a couple of final Bakersfield pints. First we stopped here, where the two of us sat at the bar and tasted some beers. The barman admitted he wasn’t much into hops, but he did give us some great suggestions. We first tasted Ruby’s Boysenberry Cobbler Kettle Sour (6.0% ABV Temblor Brewing, Bakersfield, California), a pastry sour that offered a good, dark berry sour. We also tasted Juicy Bits (6.7% ABV, Weldworks Brewing Company, Greeley, Colorado), a hazy NEIPA that had a really mmph! hops aroma, very tasty and fruity. Our third taster was Neon Rainbows (6.7% ABV, Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown, New York), which was another hazy NEIPA. It was okay, but nowt to write home about, as they would say where I live. So we both decided on half pints of Incredible Pale Ale (6.9% ABV, Henhouse Brewing, Santa Rosa, California), which was a really decent IPA and the best of our six or whatever tasters. As Rick had just arrived from a pleasantly temperate Oakland into the post-100s extreme heat in Bakersfield, we were really happy to be sitting in the air conditioned space.
  
  
• DIONYSUS BREWING, BAKERSFIELD: Rick and I then moved on to this brewpub. There was a different barman there from the one whom I chatted with last year. On one of the TV screens was John Cena, whoever he is, proselytising about something, while the other screen featured an ice hockey game. (Fortunately the volume was turned down.) Rick and I went for two halves, the first being Dank Street West Coast IPA (6.1%, Dionysus Brewing, Bakersfield, California), and the second being UpdownUpdown (5.0% ABV), which was a dry hopped pilsner. Both of these were nice and drinkable. We also had a taste of Tomorrow’s Problems (4.6% ABV), a session IPA single hopped with Sabro. I love Sabro hops, but this just wasn’t punchy enough.
  
  
• BEN & NICK'S, OAKLAND: On my trip to America I spent my last week in the Bay Area with Rick, and the two of us went to this Oakland pub for a particular purpose. As Rick knows the place and the staff well, he was happy for us to sit at the bar, which is where I always prefer to sit. We had with us a mysterious envelope that was entrusted to us years ago by a fellow programmer when we all worked together developing CAD/CAM at Northrop. The envelope had the following handwritten inscription: “Rick & Jamie, Your (sic) the only ones I can trust with these. God bless you. Stan.”
  
  I had originally come across this envelope in 2023 while going through some old files, so as I would be seeing Rick on my USA trip later that year, I packed it in my suitcase. But when we met up, we completely forgot about it. Earlier this year Rick found it in his possession, so we made a point of definitely remembering to open it this time. The last time either of us saw our friend Stan was when Rick was at a beer event at Ben & Nick’s about a decade earlier--hence why we decided Ben & Nick’s would make the most appropriate venue.
  
  While we sat at the bar we chatted with Bruce the beer chef and Nathalia the bartender. We also ordered pints of Blind Pig IPA (6.1% ABV, Russian River Brewing Company, Santa Rosa, California). I already knew that Blind Pig was a trustworthy hoppy beer, and it was absolutely perfect for the task ahead of us, both smart and zippy. Sadly, when we ceremonially opened the envelope, staple by staple, we were completely mystified by the contents, and nobody has been able to tell us what they might be.
  
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• GOOD HOP, OAKLAND: One night after dinner, Rick and I walked over to this brewpub. Again we sat at the bar, just a few seats down from a woman and her dachshund, who seemed to want a pint as well. Rick and I both went for pints of Face the Strange Pale Ale (5.5% ABV, Faction Brewing, Alameda, California), which seemed quite appropriate. And facing the strange was a great way to end our long, beer-filled day in the East Bay.
  
  
• TORONADO, SAN FRANCISCO: On my Bay Area visit, Rick and I spent a day in San Francisco, so we stopped into this classic pub. We sat at the end of the bar and shared two pints, the first being Dank Tales IPA (6.5% ABV, Fort George Brewing, Astoria, Oregon). This is a dank and piney West Coast IPA, brewed with Columbus T90, Columbus Cryo, Strata, Amarillo, and Columbus T45 hops, and the malts used are Rahr Pils, Line Buzz Acidulated Pale, Line White Wheat, and Weyerman. So there you have it. It’s quite good, a bit dank, nice and dry.
  
  Our other pint was Point Being IPA (7.0% ABV, Sainte Adarius Rustic Ales, Capitola, California), an amber golden ale with a perfumy crispness. This was brewed with Citra and Mosaic hops and tasted slightly floral.
  
  The bar at the Toronado is still cash only, and ID is required, even from us more mature drinkers. As we sipped our pints we took in the extremely crowded and busy decor, including the GARAGE SERVICE vintage neon sign over the bar, along with a zillion old US-style pump taps. Years ago Rick had snuck a small “Vanderkitty” sticker on the wall and was impressed to see that it was still there. Behind us a group of very drunk hippie friends were hugging and screaming, and of course they were drinking Jaegerbombs, which they all slammed loudly on the bar, while “Pigs” by Pink Floyd played loudly on the sound system. This was basically the sort of afternoon it had become. Rick and I had hoped to take a Waymo across town to this pub, but the self-driving taxis didn’t appear to be operating from the two locations. So we had to take an ordinary Lyft. Oh well, maybe next time.
  
  
• EUREKA!, BERKELEY: After spending an entire day in San Francisco, Rick and I returned to the East Bay. After a nice Cajun dinner we stopped in here and sat at the back bar. It was a difficult decision for us between beer, whiskey, or a cocktail, but we finally went for pints of Keanu Is Immortal (6.8% ABV, Henhouse Brewing Company, Santa Rosa, California). Brewed with Centennial and Citra hops, this hazy WCIPA just tastes good in an honest way, and its description claims it will help protect us from ICE and riots and deportation and all the things that could happen tomorrow on No Kings Day. Considering this was the eve of my final full day of this year’s USA visit, this beer gave me a nice fuzzy feeling on the tongue and in the stomach, with a super dry malty balance and enough hops to tame the malt. “Every sip is throwing a dart at the dartboard of beer flavours,” Rick commented. “It’s not sticking to hops or malt. It’s bending the tip of the Transamerica Building.” This beer seemed to offer flavour notes of a sander on virgin oak, with perhaps a burned fuel smell. Basically, this beer woke both of us up and supported us. It’s really good, just like Keanu.
  
  
• ORIGINAL PATTERN, OAKLAND: On the final evening of this yer's visit to America, before flying back to Sheffield, and after having had a great meal at NIDO’s Backyard that was accompanied by some really good margarita mocktails, and also after being delayed by one of those unbelievably long freight trains at our pedestrian crossing, Rick and I finally found our way here for some nightcaps. As we had on our previous visit, we sat at the bar. I first tasted Sunny Haze (6.9% ABV, Original Pattern Brewery, Oakland, California). A hazy IPA brewed with El Dorado, New Zealand Waimea, and New Zealand Motueka hops, this seemed a little bit sweet to me. So I went for a 14-ounce glass of Beer For Y’All (6.9% ABV), an IPA hopped with Krush, Mosaic, and Strata hops. This was pretty cool, with the suggestion of pineapple and pine resin, and that’s two “pines” that I really like. Rick had a pint of The Session (4.7% ABV), with Mosaic, Idaho 7, and New Zealand Nectaron hops. A collaboration with The Brewing Network, this was quite respectably complicated for a 4.7% beer. For a Saturday night it was surprisingly quiet here, with just three of us sitting at the bar and one guy over at a table, while giant rats towered over us from behind the bar. The music on this serious No Kings revolution of a day featured topical songs by Simon & Garfunkel, Al Steward, Bob Dylan, the Dead Kennedys, Billy Brag, and the Clash, and they even played “If I Had A Hammer”. Since today could have been the end of the world, we finished with five-ounce tasters of a couple of powerhouses. Lucky Number 7 (10.5% ABV), a Triple IPA with Simcoe Dynaboost, Mosaic, New Zealand Nectaron, and Columbus Cryo hops, was obviously brewed for the brewery’s birthday. It was described as grapefruit, pine, berry, and pungent earthiness--and yep, it was just what the doctor ordered. Our other dangerous choice was BBA Midnight Awakening Imperial Stout (14% ABV), featuring dark chocolate, toffee, and bourbon, and aged 18 months in Breckenridge Distillery bourbon barrels. Yowza. This was truly, truly, truly serious shit, and quite amazing.
  
  
• BLAKE HOTEL, SHEFFIELD: A couple of weeks after I got back to Sheffield from America, we experienced some surprisingly hot weather. So I stopped in here one quiet Monday afternoon and had a pint of American 5 Hop #80 (4.3% ABV, Blue Bee Brewing Company, Sheffield, South Yorkshire). I mean, I’ve had quite a few versions of this beer since the brewery started with #1, but it’s a bit mindboggling that they’re now on Version 80. I didn’t really want a cask ale on such a hot day, but it was really the only choice. Brewed with Cascade, Citra, Krush, Columbus, and Comet hops, it was nice and richly golden, very dry and bitter, with a pretty interesting combination of hops. Five “C” hops, if you count the proper grammatical way to spell Krush. Or, I suppose, you could actually spell them Kascade, Kitra, Krush, Kolumbus, and Komet, if you wanted to. But why bother? I started out sitting in the peaceful and completely shady beer garden. But my quiet reverie was suddenly destroyed by a loud group of young friends, all with loud scratchy voices, and one with a horridly loud laugh with which he insisted on constantly destroying the quiet. So I retreated inside to finish my pint where I could actually hear myself think.
  
  
• TWO SHEDS, SHEFFIELD: I’ve been to this favourite micropub so many times in the past month that I forget what all I’ve tried. One time it was the rather wonderful Microevolution DDH Hazy Pal (4.5% ABV, Atom Beers, Kingston on Hull, East Yorkshire). I mean, the “double dry hopped” sort of says it all. Hopped with Krush Cryo, and then dry-hopped with Krush Cryo, Mosaic, and Nelson Sauvin, that says even more. These are all fine hops, and this is a fine, fine beer.
  
  On a sleepy Tuesday afternoon, after having my teeth cleaned, I stopped and had a pint of Somers New Zealand Hazy Pale 4.3% ABV, Vocation Brewing, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire). This was a pleasant cask with bitter hops including Motueka, Rakau, and Nelson Sauvin. It suggested tropical fruit zest and pine, which is all good. There was a hell of a lot of flavour in that pint.
  
  On one visit I had tastes of three offerings, and all of them were good. The first was Asterion Pale Ale (4.0% ABV, Abbeydale Brewing Company, Sheffield, South Yorkshire). As part of their Mythical Creatures series, this is a cask brewed with New Zealand hops, specifically Wai-Iti and Riwaka, with Maris Otter Barley and wheat. It was very good, with a distinct Wompf! of Down Under. The second was Solo Galaxy Pale Ale (3.8% ABV, Triple Point Brewing Company, Sheffield, South Yorkshire), which was fruity and obviously single hopped with Galaxy. For such a low ABV this was definitely a Yep! brew. The third was the one I went for: Amongst the Waves Pilsner (4.2% ABV, Neptune Brewing, Liverpool, Merseyside). Described as having floral notes and light hoppiness, as well as being dry and crisp, this makes me think of bodysurfing in crisp white frothy waves which collapse on the shore after I’ve caught a big wave, the salty sand drying between my toes. Now, this memory was back some time ago, of course, before I moved far away from Southern California, before I ended up with my high-maintenance six-colour hair and well, before I became an adult and had to do responsibilities ‘n’ things. Still, this sparks a nice ingrained feeling, those piscine genes I inherited from my Oregon beach mother and my Santa Monica father. At the very least, I’d like to be drinking this by the ocean, or at least by a sea or a bay or a lake of some sort, and not on a hill more than 80 miles from any sea or surf. Oh well, perhaps I’ll have another pint...
  
  The night before the start of Tramlines, I stopped after work and had a lovely pint of Scuba Pale Ale. And once again, this is a nice dip in the hazy golden ocean. The hops are Cashmere, Cryo Pop, Idaho 7, and Mosaic, so no wonder this is so much like a whoopy splashing frothy wave of wonder. As I sat and sipped this, I noticed it was very crowded in the pub, but most customers were outside on the benches. A big, old golden dog was happily wagging his or her tail at a very mellow rate, and there was a large after-work group of young people around the big table, but fortunately none of them were screeching in a hideous voice. (I mean, there always seems to be one.) So what a nice, really pleasant change. I’ve decided that Cashmere is a really wonderful hops, more subtle in its wonderfulness than, say, Talus or Sabra or Galaxy; but when combined with the wonderfully brilliant idea of the earthy Mosaic and the classically so-cool Idaho 7, amazing things can happen.
  
  
• THE HALLAMSHIRE, SHEFFIELD: On a recent visit I first had a taste of Luminosa Hazy Pale Ale (3.4% ABV, Siren Craft Brew, Finchampstead, Berkshire). Part of the brewery's Suspended In Cask series, this is surprisingly hoppy and flavourful for such a low-ABV beer, and I would be really happy to drink pints of it on a live music night. But on this hot afternoon I wanted just one really fine pint, and preferably a cold keg rather than a cask. So I went for the quite good Mersey Pale (4.0% ABV, Neptune Brewery, Liverpool, Merseyside). Now, this is just a really nice beer, very drinkable and satisfying.
  
  Recently I’ve really enjoyed the Encore Hazy IPA (4.5% ABV, Thornbridge Brewing Company, Bakewell Derbyshire, collaborating with Abbeydale Brewing and Triple Point Brewing, both in Sheffield, South Yorkshire). This was brewed as a tribute to the Leadmill, the legendary rock venue that has finally closed, after many battles to keep it going. It’s really sad, because I never actually made it to the Leadmill. But at least I can drink this wonderfully satisfying brew, and it was a great refresher for the hot humid day, the air dripping with pollen.
  
  On another hot day I had a taste of Lemon Ginger Radler (3.4% ABV, Vault City Brewing Company, Edinburgh, Scotland). On the other side of the bar, Ash and Lottie found this nicely refreshing, but on my side I found it just a bit sweet on the aftersip. So I went for a pint of Steeplechase (4.4% ABV, Round Corner Brewing Company, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire), which I found a brilliantly bright-eyed (even through the haze) hoppy pleasure.
  
  On a very recent visit, I had a pint of Shimmering Pond Hazy IPA (5.6% Round Corner). I realised it was a strong choice for me, but my god, it tasted like the nectar of the gods. My senses were suddenly sent high up, in a theatrical sort of way, way up from where my body was feeling this week. This gorgeous beer is brewed with Talus in the whirlpool, and then double dry-hopped with Talus, Sabro & Idaho-7. And there’s just a touch of coconut in the character, which is really quite special.
  
  
• WALKLEY BEER COMPANY, SHEFFIELD: During a slight break in the heat, with the day a bit on the rainy side, I stopped in and had a pint of Krush Sabro Oat Pale (4.5% ABV, Two by Two, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear), which is a hazy oat pale. Jay insisted that all New England IPAs have oats in the mix, so he couldn’t see why I thought this was so interesting. But I didn’t feel like quibbling, because it was very nice and drinkable.
  
  On another sleepy Wednesday after work, I stopped in and started with a taste of Vic Secret and Ella NEIPA (4.5%, Three Blind Mice Brewing, Ely, Cambridgeshire), which was pleasant. But I was instantly sold on a cask instead: Celestial Twins Hazy Pale Ale (4.5% Shiny Brewery, Derby, Derbyshire), hopped with a super mix of Citra, Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin, and Idaho 7. And after a bad night with not much sleep, this perked me right up. Oh yep!
  
  
• OLD SHOE, SHEFFIELD: Two days after I returned from America, I met my friend Olly here. Both of us had just finished work, me at my usual job and jetlagged as hell, and Olly at her brand new shiny job. While she had two glasses of Grecanico wine from Cantina Marilina of Sicily, I had two pints of Cactus Cat Pale Ale (4.1% ABV, Tartarus Beers, Leeds, West Yorkshire). Described as tropical and grapefruity, this was a good after- work catch-up beer, as we had so much to talk about, including her exhausting job hunt and me with my new Hawaii-California-dogs-cats-adventures.

BOTTLED/CANNED BEER UPDATE:

• Gold Cliff IPA (7.2% ABV, Kona Brewing Company, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii). This was my very first can of Hawaiian beer, consumed on my first evening at cousins Randy and Leigh’s pet-filled house in Ocean View on the Big Island. Hopped with Chinook, Azacca, and Mosaic hops, and malted with Pale 2-Row, Caramel-10, and Acidulated, it also contains pineapple. The beer is named after Kaunolu Cove, on the southern tip of the island of Lana'i, which is a favourite diving and snorkelling spot. It was a very welcome and hoppy introduction to my short stay. We accompanied the beer with three kinds of poke, my introduction to this wonderful marinated raw fish, so I was pretty much in heaven.
• Kua Bay IPA (7.3% ABV, Kona Brewing Company). Hopped with Cascade and Centennial hops, and malted with Pale 2 Row Premium, Munich 30, and Caramel 80 this beer was named after the perfect beach at Kua Bay on the Big Island. The uniquely subtle coppery malt, which seemed to be the norm in these Hawaiian beers, was really nicely tempered with a mild pine-resin hoppiness. Basically it was an easy drinking IPA, but not super hoppy, which was what I was hoping for at that moment. But it did accompany our game of Virtual Reality Golf pretty well. And the can features a picture of a body-surfing woman, so I can identify with that.
• Ma’a IPA (5.1% ABV, Ola Brewery, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii). The next evening, while again donning the VR headphones to play more bizarre golf, attempting to push a virtual ball down long skinny greens which looked over massively deep caverns, I drank a can of this lighter beer, which uses all Pilsner malts. The Hawaiian word Ma'a means "accustomed to", so I’m intrigued by why they named this beer “accustomed to IPA”
• Longboard (5.1% ABV, Kona Brewery, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii). Island Lager. I actually had a can of this back in England. I bought it at Manchester Airport when I flew in after an entire day of flights and traveling. By the time I got my bag and was ready to walk down to the train station, I was so extremely thirsty that I got it to drink on the train back to Sheffield. And it was a pretty decent lager, I must say.
• IPA (6.5% ABV, Ola Brewery): This West Coast style IPA, hopped with Simcoe and Citra hops, is really good! I drank it on a nice chill afternoon, which was my final afternoon with my cousins in Ocean View. And I was very happy to taste those crisp, zippy citrus hops, very happy indeed!