The heat is on!

So the weather has broken and it's summertime. In the lulls of work, I'll get back and fill everyone in on our last springtime batches, including two versions of Dark Star, our robust porter, the Spherical Brewing Irish Red, and tasting notes from all of our previous beers!

Brewday Blog: Rainy Day IPA v2

The latest brew is our Rainy Day IPA. After a rebrewing our Cascade Pale and attempting a Black Butte clone, we decided to come back to an IPA.

Design Notes:

The last time we brewed the Rainy Day IPA was our first attempt at a real "throw a lot of hops in at different times" IPA. Because we start almost all of our beers with 6 lbs of pale liquid extract and we really don't want to go with more than 3 lbs of grain in our partial mashes, our first IPA also ended up on the low side in the ABV rankings (about 5.2 %).

This version of Rainy Day we wanted to simplify the hop structure (to see how much of a difference it makes) and increase the starting gravity a bit by adding some dry malt extract (DME) to get us up into the mid-range of IPAs (6.5ish % ABV).

As before, we're going to dry hop with 1 oz of Amarillo in the secondary. We may also add the Centennial that we've got left over, we'll see. The hop nose on the first brew came out pretty well, but we can always go with more.

Overall, this brewday was one of the least stressful, and therefor most successful, brewdays yet.

Beer nerd stats below the fold...

Thirsty Thursdays, 5/5/11 Edition

Every Thursday we'll update our beer list with the amount of beer that we've got in stock and what's coming down the pipeline. Check back every week, and, if you're in the Long Beach area, let us know if there are any beers that you'd like to try!

Thirsty Thursday's Beer List, 4/28/11 Edition

Every Thursday we'll update our beer list with the amount of beer that we've got in stock and what's coming down the pipeline. Check back every week, and, if you're in the Long Beach area, let us know if there are any beers that you'd like to try!

Special shout out to our beer tasters at GCH and Lucid Motions. 

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