Your tipsy blockchain #Beerologist is back again this week for #beersaturday. You are always invited to leave a huge upvote and join our friend @detlev to create your own post with the gang! So glad to have found a home with beer drinkers across the world on my favourite blockchain.
For week 409, I am sharing a couple more big city beers and brewing up another hoppy NEIPA.
This week, we have the Guest Pint O the Week as friends often share some of their beerology finds. @parabyte may not have posted since back in the STEEM days but lives on through the beers he sends me! I have enjoyed Beau's Juiced AF Hazy IPA https://beaus.ca/products/juiced-af before but never the double IPA version!
This one is special in part because of the awesome big 19 fluid ounce can, but Double Juiced AF https://beaus.ca/products/double-juiced-af boasts a powerful 9% ABV! Even though it is only listed as 25 IBU on the website, I would be this one is a healthy punch in the mouth and probably wouldn't recommend drinking more than one of these in a session!
Thrust!
One of my favoourite stops when in the big city is a visit to one of my favourite breweries Great Lakes Brewing. The funny thing about this beer is I picked it up during my last trip to town and discovered it in my new beer fridge behind the kegs! My new photo spot is actually right on that fridge with the taps in the background and you can see this one was frosty cool by the condensation.
Thrust an IPA has been one of my favourite seasonally released IPAs for as long as I have been obsessed with that style. Because it is so popular and well-distributed, I snap it up when I see it on the shelves here 2 hours away from the brewery. Even better is getting it right from the tap room and rediscovering it a couple months later. Still a damn fine IPA!
Moxee!
This is a pint I picked up last week while in the big city. I am not sure why I am surprised every spring when I find it on the shelves as it is always released then. Maybe because it is potentially my favourite regional craft IPA in a literal sea of other options.
Meanwhile...down in moxee NEIPA used to be brewed with Citra, Simcoe and Mosaic hops but they list El Dorado on the can. Always innovating and actually visiting the Washington area where most of their hops are grown, GLB does a fantastic job with IPAs and this has become one of my all time highlights of spring!
What's Brewing?
Currently fermenting in our garage brewery, we have our standard Amber ale, a creamy golden ale (named such as we added corn sugar as a late stage addition because the initial gravity was a bit too low for our liking) and my specialty NEIPA.
Speaking of the latter, this is what we call Mount Hopmore which is created by the centrifuge device we use to create a whirlpool effect at the boil stage. Hops are definitely not cheap when you use this much but we absolutely must have plenty of bold flavour and bitterness in our signature IPA.
In about 3 weeks, we will be pulling this out of the fermenter and testing to see how close we have gotten to our target of 6.3% ABV, hazy appearance and boldly balanced tropical sweetness and dry bitterness.
#BEERSaturday!
It is hockey playoff season and this legend has it right.
Join me, @detlev , and these other beerologists because there is always room for more beer bloggers at this week's Beer Saturday gathering... https://hive.blog/hive-187719/@detlev/beersaturday-409 409 weeks is quite the run with plenty of hangovers but it is a noble marathon.
