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Beer Name: Rakau
Style: Hoppy grisette
ABV: 4.7%
Color: Golden straw

Cheese Pairing: Drunken Goat
Food Pairing: Cake
Music Pairing (Jimbo's Choice): "Gypsy Heart"  by the Red Elvises
Music Pairing (Jared's Choice): "The Final Countdown" by Europe
Best Occasion to Drink: While leaving dramatically and flipping everyone off as you go. 

Brewers' Notes: After months of denial, it's finally time for us to say Goodbye Forever to one of our favorite-ever hops: Mass-grown* Rakau! We've been brewing with this fruity little bastard since the Very Beginning - it was part of Wasted Life (our once and former flagship IPA) for years, and it was prominently featured in one of our first-ever non-flagship recurring beers (remember Bullhead? I miss Bullhead) and honestly we took every opportunity we could get to cram this sucker into every beer we could. But the fact remains that Rakau is a Kiwi hop at heart, and it turns out that (at least from a farming perspective) Massachusetts is basically nothing like New Zealand and that means it really does not want to grow here. And so! We took the last of our remaining Rakau and bid it a tearful farewell and put it all into this delicious-ass grisette and now you can bid it goodbye with us and/or have some tasty pints! 

* The character of hop varieties changes wildly depending on where they're grown. Wine geeks refer to this as "terroir," which translates to "dirt." Do with that what you will. 
©2014 - 2023 Bone Up Brewing Co., LLC.  All rights reserved. Contact us at info@boneup.beer
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      • Ginger Jamboree
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      • God of Night
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      • Half the Time
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      • Hazy Spacey Jam
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      • Hop Chariot
      • Hop Wizard
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      • The Hourglass
      • I am the Island
      • I See a Dankness
      • Idaho 7
      • Into the Unknown
      • It's Like We Finish Each Other's...
      • J.A.R.E.D.
      • Jabber
      • Jam Session
      • Jaunty
      • Jazz From Hell
      • Jeff
      • Jimbo Jaliper
      • Jodi
      • Joining the War on the Side of the Whales
      • Josh
      • Joybringer
      • Joyrider
      • Kaboobi's Top Score
      • Kegasus
      • Key Lime
      • Kingslayer
      • Korey
      • L.I.Z.
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      • Lawbringer
      • Lawn Chair
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      • Le Triumph!
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      • Madeline the Destroyer
      • Mag-nificent Chemistry
      • Main Squeeze
      • Man Overboard
      • Mandarina Pale
      • Mandarinazacca
      • Mango Thango
      • Marimba
      • Master of Extremity
      • Maybe Saturday
      • Meesh Meesh
      • Melvin the Mammoth
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      • Merry Go Round
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      • Mo'Biscuits!
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      • Multihead
      • Mystery Shack
      • Nameless Wave
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      • Barrel Aged No Light Ever
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      • No Puns, Just Fun
      • Nug
      • Ocean
      • Oh My!
      • Oink!
      • Ol' Orange Eyes
      • On-On
      • Orange Red Dead
      • Organ Meats
      • Out of Bounds
      • Ozzy
      • A Pale Glow
      • Part Deux
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      • Pat Signal
      • Patio Weather
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      • Picnic Time
      • Pink Smoothie
      • Pizza Time!
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      • Pretend It's Summer
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      • The Quadless Leg Monster
      • R.B.G.
      • R.P.M.
      • Rakau
      • Rebello Fellow
      • Redeemer
      • The Royal Sampler
      • Ruby Rye
      • Rumble Royale
      • Rufus
      • Sabrobro
      • SaBRU
      • Sachem's Ale
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      • ... Sandwiches!
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      • Scatterbrau
      • Semi-Weekly Cask
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      • Shelby
      • Shlem
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      • Shut Up Kelly!
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      • Sir Wallington
      • Skeleton Key
      • Smaltster
      • Snail the Pale
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      • Somergloom
      • Something Brewed
      • South of Italy
      • Southern Star
      • Spacin' Out
      • Spirals
      • Splorge!
      • Springtime Lies
      • Spruce Moose
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      • Squash Your Enemies
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      • Stick the Landing
      • Sticky Fingers
      • Stomper
      • Stone Valley
      • Strut!
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      • Summoner
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      • Super Jeff
      • Supergroup
      • Synhoptikon
      • Synthetic Dreams
      • Teamaker
      • Tears of Krampus
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      • This is a Guilloteenagers Beer
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      • Three of Cups
      • TLA
      • Tom's Fault
      • Trial Run
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      • Triple Pearl
      • Two To Mango
      • Unholy Alliance
      • Uni-Dog
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      • Untethered
      • Uptown
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      • Voyager
      • Vye-Olent World
      • Walkin' Beer
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      • We're All Doomed
      • Weird Moon
      • Welcome to the Bad Future
      • Wellington
      • Where Serpents Dwell
      • Where's Chris?
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      • Wolf Pup
      • Worshipper
      • Yelling at Birds
      • Zoopah!
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