The folks at Lupulin won’t spill the secret recipe for their ultra-dank Straight Hash Homie. We can’t blame ‘em. Like all the fans calling this seasonal Imperial IPA a “must try” on Untappd, we love it so much, we’d try cloning it. 

Or, we would if we had this Minnesota brew crew’s GABF Gold Medal-winning skills! 

In the meantime, we’ll take some guesses at the ingredients:

• Organic, Willie Nelson-grown hemp, for aroma.
• The pineapples from Pineapple Express, for flavor (there were pineapples in that movie, right?).
• Cheech and Chong’s van, for some haze.
• A dash of street graffiti, for edge. 

Jokes aside, we do know that Lupulin crafts this 7.7% ABV quencher with pure, 100% Lupulin Powder (extra potent, concentrated hop dust)! Don’t be fooled by the soft bitterness and bursts of orange, pineapple, and mango kush flavors — no whole hop pellets or seed cones have touched Straight Hash Homie. 

It’s a tricky science to get this much flavor from Lupulin Powder alone, which is why you’re probably going to want to make your own hazy-minded guesses about additional secretive ingredients. 

But you gotta get it first! As a limited-release that Lupulin brews only once a year, once it’s gone, it’s gone. Don’t get left in the smoke! 

Rated 92/100 on BeerAdvocate; 4.13 on Untappd

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