Juicy Style Golden Ale

ABV: 5.0%

Gravity: 14 dP

IBUs: 12

Malts: Pils, Flaked Wheat, Caramel Malt, and Sorghum

Hops: Citra, Calypso, and Cascade

Secret Yeast Blend: Yeast blend selected for high Beta-lyase (a natural enzyme) activity intended to release aromatic thiol compounds

Beer for Buddies

TASTING NOTES

Beer for Buddies achieves an aromatically dominant fruit profile of passionfruit, mango, papaya, pear, and nectarine with a mixed fermentation of natural brewers yeast to release more aromas from the malt and hops during fermentation. The base golden ale is light in body to showcase the fruit character with no more than a hint of malt sweetness and a touch of pine on the finish.

SECRET TECHNIQUES

We feel it is important to note “natural” brewers yeast are our choice because of a recent trend to use “thiolized” yeasts which are genetically modified (GMOs) to express thiols. Thiols are low threshold aromatic compounds freed in the fermentation process that someone in that marketing department branded “biotransformation,” but is really just a co-product of fermentation that does not need its own term. Being brewers, we help yeast express more aromatic thiols though wort composition and yeast selection (you know, things brewer should be doing) rather than playing Jurassic Park with our yeast.

INGREDIENTS

Pils, Flaked Wheat, Caramel Malt, and Sorghum, Citra, Calypso, and Cascade Hops, Natural Brewers Yeast, Water