Electric Ray India Pale Lager
Collaboration Partner: Ballast Point Brewing Company San Diego, CA
As ever, San Diego’s Ballast Point looked to the sea for the inspiration behind Electric Ray. A play on the fish’s scientific name—Torpedo californica—this beer pays homage to our mutual home state, as well as to our Hop Torpedo, the source of much of the big flavor in this high voltage, hopforward Imperial Pale Lager.
Ballast Point brought their homebrewing dreams to the big leagues and started brewing professionally, but they never forgot their roots. They still run a successful homebrewing supply shop in San Diego. A love for hops and the ocean inspire incredible brewed and distilled offerings, and their oneofakind labels boast some beautiful, and sometimes gnarlylookin’, fish.
ABV: 8.5
Beginning Gravity: 18.0
Ending Gravity: 2.7
Bitterness Units: 70
Yeast: Lager
Bittering Hops: Cascade, Zues, Nugget, Northern Brewer
Finishing Hops: Amarillo, Crystal, Centennial, Cascade
Malts: Two-row Pale, Pilsner, Oats, Munich, Caramel
Electric Ray is an IPL—
Imperial Pale Lager— combining intense citrusy and floral American hop aroma with the clean, crisp, classic malt body of a robust blonde lager. It is both traditionally dryhopped AND torpedoed with wholecone American hops for an intense grapefruit and roselike nose.
Ancient Mariner is our chance to have fun with two things we love deeply, the Gose style of beer from Leipzig Germany, and traditional flavors and ingredients from Baja California. The bright lime saturated nose jumps out of the glass to taunt you to take your first sip. As it gets closer to your nose, subtleties of white pepper and cardamom begin to follow behind the lime, and as that first taste hits your palate, the heavily salted Gose pops on your taste buds with the salinity working as a megaphone for this absolutely crushable Lime Gose. A large dose of imported maize not only helps make this beer as dry as possible, but pairs with our house pilsner malt to create a grain profile similar to a corn tortilla. Ancient Mariner may have been dreamt up while fishing off the coast of Mexico, but at 4.6% it can be crushed wherever its Captain sees fit.
PT. BONITA
Pt Bonita is our Bohemian Pilsner. It’s nice and spicy from the rye, 14%, and it has just enough noble hop character and body from the rustic grains. It’s light, crisp, refreshing and it’s named after the Point Bonita Lighthouse in the Headlands, in case you couldn’t figure that out on your own.
Hops: Liberty, Saaz and Crystal
Malt: 2-Row, Pilsner, Munich, Rye
5.3% abv
38 IBUs
Maillard's Odyssey Imperial Dark Ale
Collaboration Partner: Bell's Brewery, Inc. Kalamazoo, MI
Rich, dark, and roasty. That was the concept Bell’s beer guru John Mallett aimed for and, true to John’s vision, Maillard’s Odyssey is exactly that. Its name honors the Maillard reaction —the “browning” of sugars and amino acids—that creates the wonderful caramelized toffeelike and roasted flavors so abundant in this beer.
Bell’s has done a lot to raise the Midwest’s craft beer bona fides. They are masters of many beer styles from their portfolio of topnotch American stouts all the way through to the alpha acid assault of their Hopslam Ale. Bell’s constantly reinvents beer styles and refines recipes with artful mastery and an oddball slant.
ABV: 8.5
Beginning Gravity: 20.5
Ending Gravity: 5.1
Bitterness Units: 40
Yeast: Ale
Bittering Hops: Magnum
Finishing Hops: Sterling, Cascade
Malts: Two-row Pale, Munich, Caramel, Chocolate, Wheat, Oats, Roasted Barley
Maillard’s Odyssey is a robust dark ale layered with complex malt flavors of toffee, caramel, chocolate, coffee, and dark fruit. This maltfocused concept spawned a daunting grain bill featuring 10 different grains including pale malt, Munich, chocolate malt, oats, dark wheat and roasted barley for a rich, semisweet and intense experience.