Tipples Beer Review 22 - Deep Creek Beer - Lupulin Effect IPA Project – Wunderbier German IPA

Today we are off across the ditch to New Zealand for a beer from Deep Creek Brewing, an Auckland based brewer. The beer in question in the Lupulin Effect IPA Project Wunderbier German IPA which would be quite a mouthful to order at the bar - luckily I'm drinking from a can which I picked up on impulse at the bottleshop.

Lupulin is the active ingredient in Hops, So what is the Lupulin effect? For me the effect of hops is a) to make beers very tasty b) to make me wax lyrical about stuff I know very little about c) make me sleepy. That last one is not surprisingly given hops is the main ingredient in a lot of herbal sleeping tablets.

The beer is all it's just poured goodness

Anyway enough of the intellectual claptrap and onto the beer. As you can see from the pic above the beer pours a lovely beer like golden yellow colour, with a big fluffy white head. The taste is largely as you would expect which is to say very hop forward, the hops feel a little resinous, by which I mean bitter to bitter sake rather than big fruity hop flavours. It feels a little like what IPA’s tasted like 3 or 4 years ago before the NEIPA explosion of fruit.

I should mention that I rarely research anything I write on here, as they are normally written whilst drinking, on my phone in a pub. But this afternoon I’m on a laptop on my balcony, so I have time to do some goggling. I can tell you the reason this feels a little old fashioned is the Germanic aspect of the IPA, apparently this is made with traditional German style hops, or what beery people called noble hops.

Now these are hops that are normally used for subtlety so to bang a heap of them in a IPA is not a normal choice, I’m also not convinced that it is one that works either. This is a okay beer, I like the idea of a series of IPA’s exploring different hops, I like a can design but at the end of the day I wouldn’t go seek this out again.

Where can I get it? If you are in NZ (are their any NZ steembeer people?) then it shouldn’t be too hard, if you in Australia then better independent beer shops will be your best options.

*The beer a a Typewriter, the typrewriter is from New Zealand, in the sense that it was my grandfathers and he was lived in Palmerston North in NZ