SCIENCE: Style: American Double/Imperial IPA ABV: 8.9% SRM: 6.3 IBU: 20 Hops: Simcoe, Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Perle, and Galaxy Malt: Pilsen, Golden Promise, and Munich HISTORY: The follow-up to a collaboration brew done at Thornbridge Brewery’s place close to 2 years ago, Pond Hopper Double Extra Pale Ale is meant to showcase ingredients from both [...]
Thursday, June 28, 2012
SCIENCE: Style: American Wild Ale ABV: 7.5% OG: 21 TG: 4.7 IBU: 23 SRM: 5.5 Hops: Target, Sorachi Ace, Nelson Sauvin Malt: Pale Yeast: Brettanomyces HISTORY: This beer is actually an indirect product of a beer brewed back in 2004. That year, Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium and Tomme Arthur of The Lost Abbey got [...]
Friday, June 15, 2012
SCIENCE: Style: Other Strong Ale ABV: 7.8% IBU: 55 Color: Copper Hops: Target, Fuggle, and Northern Brewer Malt: English Pale, Amber, Crystal, and Roasted Barley Yeast: Scottish Ale HISTORY: Originally brewed as TWENTY, Breckenridge Brewery’s 20th Anniversary beer, in 2010, Well Built ESB is now released about every 3 months and only available in Colorado. [...]
Thursday, May 17, 2012
SCIENCE: Style: Belgian Pale Ale ABV: 8.0% IBU: 30 SRM: 24 Hops: Liberty, Czech Saaz Malt: Belgian Pale Malt from Colorado Malting Co. Yeast: Special 3-Yeast Belgian Blend from Brewing Science Institute Additives: Shagbark Hickory syrup from Hickoryworks in Trafalgar, Indiana HISTORY: This CAN-laboration (their term, not mine) began as most do, with a friendship [...]
Thursday, May 10, 2012
SCIENCE: Style: American Wild Ale ABV: 7.50% IBU: 20 SRM: 7.5 OG: 16.5 (wood-aged) and 24 (non-wood-aged) TG: 2.57 Blend: 56% Wood-Aged Sour Beer, 44% Non-Wood-Aged Ale Malts: Pale, Malted Wheat, Caramel-80, Carapils, Oats Hops: Target Additives: Lychee Fruit, Cinnamon HISTORY: When this beer arrived on my doorstep (thanks New Belgium!) the first thing I [...]
Thursday, May 3, 2012
SCIENCE: Style: American Amber/Red Ale ABV: 5.25% IBU: 25 SRM: 18 OG: 1.052 Hops: Centennial, Cascade HISTORY: Owners Kevin and Marissa Selvy say that the beer (and thus the brewery) is named after a mountain on their family’s ranch in Central Colorado. Said mountain is known as ‘Loco Mountain’, which pretty much anyone, regardless of [...]
Friday, April 20, 2012
SCIENCE: Style: Double IPA ABV: 9.0% IBU: 130 Color: Pale Amber Boil Hops: American bittering hops (River North secret) Dry Hops: Cascade History: River North is one of Denver’s newest breweries (they opened two months ago) and they’ve already released two of their beers in bombers, the second being J. Marie Saison. As a brewery [...]
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Science: ABV: 6.8% IBU: 65 SRM: 7 (Standard Reference Method measures beer color intensity; a 7 falls between deep gold and pale amber) Boil Hops: Centennial, Cascade, Columbus Dry Hops: Cascade, Columbus History: Referred to as the ‘Old-Man Bitter’, Modus began as a collaborative effort of the entire Ska Brewing Co. staff. As they were [...]
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