New Belgium / Elysian Trip XX Dry-Hopped Brett Ale
Vital Statistics
Type: American Pale Ale
Release: Limited Single
From the brewer
This was a fun beer to brew, partly because there were a lot of people on hand, including Peter and Dick, who collaborated on this last Trip idea, and Chris Murakami, who did most of the work. We began with a simple enough malt bill of pale and C-77 crystal, bumped the gravity and lightened the body with some sugar, adding Magnum hops to bitter and Styrian Goldings to finish, with some French Strisselspalt for dry hopping. Then the x-factor, brettanomyces, was added in the bright tank immediately before kegging, and the kegs were warm conditioned for more than a month.
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At its base a mild pale ale with sweet cereal. The brett and dry-hopping add fragrance and a yeasty forward bitterness that give this a nice added complexity. There's a bit of a Squirt-like grapefruit soda flavor that I'm not sure I loved, but other than that... a nice experience. (8 oz schooner)