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Capitol C IPA: First Taste

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The keg is charged and cooled. Time for the first pour of VA!

Beating the farmhouse out by a few weeks, Capitol C IPA has a fantastic nose on it but the mouth-feel tastes… well like it should with a FG of only 1.004 I guess. My untrained first impression is it smells like beer, looks like beer, tastes like beer, but kinda “feels” like water on the way down. Good I guess for a hot summer but I’ll have to examine where things went awry to have a bit more malt in the next batch of IPA I cook up.

Final stats come in at 10 SRM, 69 IBU, and 5.0% ABV

Capitol C IPA Label

A Little Nutty Brown Ale fizzes to life

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A Little Nutty Brown Ale is officially available for your drinking pleasure. First bottle was cracked open and looks like it’ll be drinkable. For the 16oz of nuts in the batch it only took on a bit of nut flavor. This was the first time using whirfloc and I’ll admit it does wonders to clear things up. Our Little Nutty Brown Ale has Pale Malt, oats, wheat, Caramel 20/60/80, and some chocolate. Magnum and Tettnag play the role of the hops in this brew. A pinch of brown sugar and a pound of nuts found there way into the batch as well. Dry S-04 was the yeast of the day. Final numbers for our Little Nutty Ale are 4.9% ABV, 32 IBU, 10 SRM.

Little Nutty Brown Ale

aRPA is born

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A Rye Pale has been born… and finally tasted… and it isn’t all that bad! I’m a bit surprised at the FG/ABV given the extra pound of candy syrup I added during the boil but I guess the hipsters call this sub 5% stuff “session” ale right? Rye, rye, and some more rye. aRPA also has a bit of Caramel80 and it gets its color from a little chocolate. Magnum for the boil and Chinook, Columbus, Amarillo, and Citra were added post boil and/or dry hopped after primary fermentation. WLP-001 makes it a beer. Final stats are 15 SRM, 66 IBU, and 4.6 ABV.

aRPA: a Rye Pale Ale

Suspicious Stout lives

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Suspiciously not stout-like in appearance but mighty tasty nonetheless. All the stats listed remain (62 IBU, 4.9% ABV, 23 SRM) but now the beer has bubbles, it’s cold, and lives in a fridge. Suspicious Stout says hello to your mouth with chocolate, caramel, just the right amount of oatmeal, and the spicy/sweet hint of toasted fenugreek. Nugget and Fuggles bring the IBU. The stout is a little on the light side (23 SRM) and has the mouth-feel of more of a brown ale than a true stout but overall the Brewer and the regulars here at Whirly Bird Brewing didn’t complain much.

Suspicious Stout Label