El Dorado

Bear Island Hop Smoke

Our fresh hop Rye IPA is especially unique because not only do we pick the hops by hand from our local hop farm, but we take 1/2 of these fresh hops and smoke them before they go into the batch! Our owner, Beth, invented 'hop smoking' one day when she was conducting a trial batch in her backyard among her fresh hops and while grilling at the same time. The malt background with the fresh hops...

Bear Island Hop Smoke