Beer Name: Pretend It's Summer
Style: Tropical IPA
ABV: 7.4%
Color: Misty bright gold.
Cheese Pairing: Oil-marinated goat cheese
Food Pairing: HAM
Music Pairing (Jimbo's Choice): "Fisticuffs" by the Weisstronauts
Music Pairing (Jared's Choice): "I'll Get There" by All
Best Occasion to Drink: While you're throwing a "luau" that mostly consists of drinking at ten in the morning while wearing a Hawaiian shirt (pants optional). Odds are you're blaring Jimmy Buffet or something (we think The Revelaires are a better choice, but you do you).
Brewers' Notes: As you might expect, we've had a hankerin' for the halcyon days of summer when we had nary a care in the world and the world was our oyster and restaurants aplenty were offering dollar oysters. Anyway, we wanted to brew a beery tribute to the days of all-you-can-eat crabs, so we took a buncha tropical, pineappley galena and threw a whole shitload of it (possibly several shitloads, if we're being honest) into this big ol' double IPA and then we also added a buncha actual pineapple (just in case we were being too subtle* with all that galena) and now we're gonna hunker down with a case or two of this beautiful beverage and pretend it's beach times!
*As the saying goes: subtlety is our middle name. And also our first and last, in case people didn't get the point.
Style: Tropical IPA
ABV: 7.4%
Color: Misty bright gold.
Cheese Pairing: Oil-marinated goat cheese
Food Pairing: HAM
Music Pairing (Jimbo's Choice): "Fisticuffs" by the Weisstronauts
Music Pairing (Jared's Choice): "I'll Get There" by All
Best Occasion to Drink: While you're throwing a "luau" that mostly consists of drinking at ten in the morning while wearing a Hawaiian shirt (pants optional). Odds are you're blaring Jimmy Buffet or something (we think The Revelaires are a better choice, but you do you).
Brewers' Notes: As you might expect, we've had a hankerin' for the halcyon days of summer when we had nary a care in the world and the world was our oyster and restaurants aplenty were offering dollar oysters. Anyway, we wanted to brew a beery tribute to the days of all-you-can-eat crabs, so we took a buncha tropical, pineappley galena and threw a whole shitload of it (possibly several shitloads, if we're being honest) into this big ol' double IPA and then we also added a buncha actual pineapple (just in case we were being too subtle* with all that galena) and now we're gonna hunker down with a case or two of this beautiful beverage and pretend it's beach times!
*As the saying goes: subtlety is our middle name. And also our first and last, in case people didn't get the point.