Back and Cali and cranking out beer is a good place to be in life. Whirly Bird is now pouring pints of Beetle Juice, our New England style IPA. The piles of late add Mosaic, El Dorado, and Azacca add juicy, tropical fruit flavors to the beer. It’s a keeper but it won’t last; too many thirsty folks around here…
4 SRM, 30 IBU, 6.8% ABV
Cheers!
No longer sweet wort or a bubbling beer in the works, the hazy NEIPA is now officially a 6.8% ABV flat beer. After some bio-transformation hopping and some dry hopping, I racked the NEIPA into a keg. Looking forward to the first taste once it has some bubbles.
There must be some technical glitch on the site because it looks like I haven’t made a beer in two years. I think I missed one completely but in the past two years I’ve spent more time on the road than at home and brewing has taken a back burner. Fortunately I haven’t gone two years without drinking beer…
Back in the fight, I decided to take a crack at my current favorite variety. A juicy, hoppy, New England IPA. Roll your eyes all you beer snobs and complain that juicy is an incomplete adjective. I dusted off the equipment, cracked a cold one (the chef can’t die of thirst), and 10 oz of hops later (most late additions) we have something in the works.