Double Mountain Brewery‘s Clusterf#*k IPA is back this year, and it’s hazy this time. The brewery sent me a bottle last week to sample. The beer uses Cluster hops, one of the oldest American hops, and not one you see highlighted too often. The brewery’s press release blurbs the beer:

Strange days call for clarity, or perhaps a lack of clarity. For our next seasonal beer we decided to brew a style that defies good judgement and good reasoning, thus its a clusterf#*k or more specifically a Hazy Clusterf#*k. In these unsteady times, it seems fitting to bring back our Clusterf#ck IPA beer for the occasion. This year seems particularly clustered, so we made it a hazy. Clusters are used through-out the brew. What a wonderful hop. Tradition. And then we pivot. Hazy Clusterf#*k IPA is available in refillable 500ml bottles and on draft at our Hood River Taproom, SE Portland Taproom in the Woodstock neighborhood, and at fine establishments throughout the Northwest.

I’ll report on what I think of the use of Cluster when I drink it.