Over a Pint Episode 16 wt Lauren Salazar of New Belgium
Last week JIB and went out to Draught House to meet the good folks from New Belgium and try some of those new Ranger IPAs. YUM.
Lauren Salazar (wife to Eric or Eric’s Ale), NB Sensory Specialist, was there with the rest of the local NB crew to meet and greet and pass out pints of the Ranger. She was kind enough to go on camera with us.
Lauren talked up the Ranger, an American style IPA with 70 IBUs and 6.5 ABV hopped with “tons and tons and tons…” of Cascade, Chinook, and Simcoe, and also shed some light on the name history (hint- it has nothing to do with that stupid baseball team in Arlington or Chuck Norris.) The Ranger was good. Nice and hoppy, well balanced, very drinkable. Go get it.
She also gets into describing her role at New Belgium as a sensory specialist. Basically, she can take someone who “likes beer” and five years later have them identifying off flavors and specific chemical compounds and scale on an intensity scale and other stuff that is above my pay grade (I don’t get paid anything for this.) Simply, she keeps your favorite New Belgium beers tasting the way they should across the board.
Oh, and she told us they are planning a Berliner weiss and a wet dry hopped sour ale, among other beers, for the Lips of Faith series. Wait, what? Wow. Those sound amazing. More info in the video about the Berliner Weiss, unfortunately we ran out of time before we could get much more about the wet dry hopped sour.
At the 2:36 mark you can see the guys in the background getting into a short game of charades, or he’s describing that Youtube video where the deer attacks the hunter. I’ve had that conversation at the Draught House before. I dunno.
Much thanks to Josh at Draught House and Lauren and the New Belgium crew for talking to us and sharing some beers.
For our sweet sixteenth OAP, we’re both drinking the Ranger, so if you can crack open a cold one and join us over a pint.
Enjoy!
