Description

Welcome to another fun Double IPA. This one is called Hopfenpop and will start shipping to accounts on Monday August 3rd.
We are calling this a “pre-prohibition double IPA”, part of a new series we’re calling “Never Upon a Time”.
“Why?”, you ask? Well, it’s because we did an old-school, big boy cereal mash to give it exceptionally light body (for an 8% abv beer). A cereal mash uses corn grits, which are not really a craft brewing thing. In fact, we couldn’t buy them from any of our regular suppliers, such is their “big beer” stigma. Well, they have their uses! (one of which in this case was clogging up our lauter tun big time… but we’ll come to that). The use of a cereal mash allows us to bring down the color and body of the beer, while keeping the ABV and allowing us to hop the beer “stupidly.”
So, we present to you a pale yellow, 8% abv, low bodied, refreshing, double IPA. The words refreshing and double IPA don’t ordinarily go together, but we think you will agree they do here.
The hops are Mosaic and Sorachi Ace. And there’s plenty of them. High aroma, fairly high bitterness.
A good high-summer, hot-as-mars kind of a beer.
The name, of course, is Germany-inspired, and we might wear our lederhosen to the launch party. Maaaaaaybe.
Cheers!