Oof — where to begin with this one? With the delicious end product and the against-all-odds happy ending? Or with the nothing-is-going-right process that got us there. Either way, Expensive Chaos is a New England-style IPA with Belma, El Dorado, and Sabro:
Perhaps because I live in such a wonderland of New England IPAs, I’d never felt a burning desire to make one. Don’t get me wrong, the challenge itself is tempting — but only 4-ish years and 75 brews into the hobby, there are still so many challenges to choose from! However, when the opportunity to […]
Not immune to hype and novelty, the Green Mountain Mashers (the local homebrew club, of which I am a member) caught wind of a little style catching on in San Francisco: the so-called Brut IPA. The more adventurous and experimental of us immediately started digging into whatever resources we could find. Not surprisingly, several of […]
I experienced something of a miraculous windfall. A kind of homebrewer’s waking dream. My friend Donnie texted me one day and basically said: I have a garbage bag full of Cascade hops. Do you want them? And the rhizomes? We’re done with these. Um… hell yes. Thus was born Birdwatcher:
Remember homebrew #18? Tilde Galaxy? Well, I entered it in the 2016 (7th Annual) Greg Noonan Memorial Homebrew Competition 1 and… …it won Third Place for the IPA category! Along with Sorry Karl Mk. II, but that’s a whole other story…[↩]
My twelfth homebrew was my first crack at that Vermont staple style, the IPA. Intrigued by Kiwi Express IPA from NorthernBrewer.com, that kit provides the base for Koru IPA: