Virgin American Pale Ale is Whirly Bird’s first crack at brewing beer… sorta… Ok so maybe it was more like I got some lessons on how to make beer from a more seasoned brewer. I managed to boil the pot over a few times when nobody was looking but overall it was a success.

Virgin APA featured Great Western Pale, Crisp English Ale, Caramel 60L, and CaraPils grains and had a ton of New Zealand’s finest, whole Cascade hops. Virgin APA was bottled in two batches; the first batch had five days of post fermentation dry hop finishing and the second had twenty-one days of the same type of finishing. The goal was to see if my discerning palate could tell the difference and just have some fun experimenting with the new hobby.