When I first brewed this beer, I wrote that it “was me trying to play my hand at the IPA game”. I took a less-is-more approach: super-simple grist (just some Briess Pale Ale malt and the golden light DME to make up the difference on my partial mash), all Galaxy everywhere, and a healthy pitch […]
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…[↩]
Please welcome Tilde Galaxy, a single-hop American IPA, 1 the fifteenth homebrew as Tilde Gravitywerks, my eighteenth overall, and my seventh original recipe. 2 Isn’t it a lovely sight? Arguably a Double or Imperial IPA. The 2008 BJCP style guide puts the upper end of American IPA as 1.075, and the lower end of Imperial […]