Your Weekend (Fairfax weekend paper supplement), November 21st 2009:
Showing posts with label IPA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IPA. Show all posts
Monday, November 30, 2009
Fight For Your Right to Party
Bruce Holloway and Yeastie Boys Fight For Your Right to Party
Your Weekend (Fairfax weekend paper supplement), November 21st 2009:
Your Weekend (Fairfax weekend paper supplement), November 21st 2009:
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Big new IPA fit for a king - The Press, 11/11/2009
A selection of Carl Hadler's thoughts on His Majesty in the The Press this morning:
"...a wonderful texture."
"...a good challenging blend of bitterness and hop fruit."
"...the third big New Zealand IPA I have tasted recently. They have all been hop-tastic. I did enjoy the extra bitterness in this one."
"...a wonderful texture."
"...a good challenging blend of bitterness and hop fruit."
"...the third big New Zealand IPA I have tasted recently. They have all been hop-tastic. I did enjoy the extra bitterness in this one."
Full story now available online.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Pot Kettle Black - A Black IPA?
Posted by "Yeastie Stu"
I had never before heard of the term "Black IPA" but the term has been bandied about through the beer geek community following the relase of our first beer - Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black.
Pot Kettle Black was one of those lightbulb moments that occurred following months of discussion with beer writer Neil Miller. I love malty beers and often think the this hop craze thing has gone too far - pale hoppy beers fill every shelf around town, and everyone, everywhere, is talking about them. Neil is probably New Zealand's most certifiable hophead, I'm not sure he ever tasted a beer that he wouldn't think could be better with more hops - until he got to San Diego and the World Beer Cup. I'm not sure if he met his match there but he has certainly been fairly quiet since he returned! Anyway, back to the PKB story, Neil and I spent a lot of time discussing the subtle, and not so subtle, intricacies of the deabate around hop-fuelled pale ales versus marvellous malty monsters. It got me thinking about straddling the fence between us.
Although it started out in my head as a very robust American Brown Ale, I now think of Pot Kettle Black as an American-style Porter (or, perhaps, a 'new world style'). Anchor Porter and Epic Porter were partial influences, though I always felt like both beers exhibit more black character than I wanted and that their hop character is too grassy/piney. They were hoppy porters, rather than porterish hoppy ales. Although I'd never tried it, Sierra Nevada Porter has now become the big brother beer to Pot Kettle Black. Renaissance Elemental Porter in its sweeter incarnations is like a fun uncle.
Black IPA describes Pot Kettle Black pretty well. The hops are as prominent, if not more so, than the black "Porterish" character. Black IPA is not a new term, however, as Stone Brewing in San Diego used it for their 11th Anniversary Ale in 2007 (interestingly about the same time as the first batch of Pot Kettle Black was brewed - a total coincidence). The term has since been used by quite a few breweries - most famously by Laughing Dog Brewery. To be associated, even implicitly, with the likes of the amazing Stone Brewing feels like a pretty good start for Yeastie Boys. We're here to brew beer in very small volumes for the very peak of the people in the beer loving pyramid. We hope that this peak grows, so we can grow with it, but we won't be lowering the lofty standards we're trying the achieve so that we can bite of a part of the wider "mainstream" section of that pyramid.
Slainte mhath
Stu
I had never before heard of the term "Black IPA" but the term has been bandied about through the beer geek community following the relase of our first beer - Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black.
Pot Kettle Black was one of those lightbulb moments that occurred following months of discussion with beer writer Neil Miller. I love malty beers and often think the this hop craze thing has gone too far - pale hoppy beers fill every shelf around town, and everyone, everywhere, is talking about them. Neil is probably New Zealand's most certifiable hophead, I'm not sure he ever tasted a beer that he wouldn't think could be better with more hops - until he got to San Diego and the World Beer Cup. I'm not sure if he met his match there but he has certainly been fairly quiet since he returned! Anyway, back to the PKB story, Neil and I spent a lot of time discussing the subtle, and not so subtle, intricacies of the deabate around hop-fuelled pale ales versus marvellous malty monsters. It got me thinking about straddling the fence between us.
Although it started out in my head as a very robust American Brown Ale, I now think of Pot Kettle Black as an American-style Porter (or, perhaps, a 'new world style'). Anchor Porter and Epic Porter were partial influences, though I always felt like both beers exhibit more black character than I wanted and that their hop character is too grassy/piney. They were hoppy porters, rather than porterish hoppy ales. Although I'd never tried it, Sierra Nevada Porter has now become the big brother beer to Pot Kettle Black. Renaissance Elemental Porter in its sweeter incarnations is like a fun uncle.
Black IPA describes Pot Kettle Black pretty well. The hops are as prominent, if not more so, than the black "Porterish" character. Black IPA is not a new term, however, as Stone Brewing in San Diego used it for their 11th Anniversary Ale in 2007 (interestingly about the same time as the first batch of Pot Kettle Black was brewed - a total coincidence). The term has since been used by quite a few breweries - most famously by Laughing Dog Brewery. To be associated, even implicitly, with the likes of the amazing Stone Brewing feels like a pretty good start for Yeastie Boys. We're here to brew beer in very small volumes for the very peak of the people in the beer loving pyramid. We hope that this peak grows, so we can grow with it, but we won't be lowering the lofty standards we're trying the achieve so that we can bite of a part of the wider "mainstream" section of that pyramid.
Slainte mhath
Stu
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