In collaboration with Elusive and Burning Sky
Malt: Low Colour Maris Otter, Carapils
Hops: Simcoe Columbus Chinook Cascade Citra Centennial
Yeast: House Cal Ale Yeast
We brewed this first of all at Elusive, to celebrate Andy’s 50th birthday in the summer of 2023. Batch #2 was produced at Burning Sky in 2024. This year we’ve been excited to brew V3 here at our brewery, and see how it follows or diverges from its predecessors.The beer is pale gold. Aroma is heady, sweet and fruit cocktail. It starts with more of a honeyed sweetness than the usual malt character than we get in our house IPAs, but then has also a drier finish. It has direction. The sweetness of the body pushes the hops through as pineapple, all tropical and luscious. The beer feels a touch less of the west coast than the Elusive and Burning Sky versions, a little more transatlantic in its manifestation. Less lean and elegant, a bit bigger and brasher. But a firm bitterness to end returns it towards the west coast wheelhouse, pithy grapefruit lifts it to a familiar finish
A stronger, fuller beer, and with more hop intensity than the pale ale, but aiming to keep all elements in balance: no cloying sweetness, just the necessary bitterness and a malt bill muted enough to allow the hops to shine. As with the Pale Ales and the Table Beer a basic recipe is followed, with the hop content varying from batch to batch.