Sam from Boxcar headed up to Leeds in March for a double brew day here
at North. We brewed two beers using the same malt profile: One was
soured and had two tonnes (!) of blueberries and white peach added to
it. One was dry hopped in the same style that we brew our IPAs. We then
blended the two beers together to come up with this lip puckering Sour
IPA. It's fruity, jammy, with a hoppy finish (and the colour's not bad
too...).
We have never forgotten how collaboration has formed the backbone of the
brewery as the shared knowledge from these experiences has been such an
important aid in our learning and the development of our beers. It’s
great to work on projects like this with guys who have not long started
out in brewing world and are brimming with fresh ideas.
The goal with this beer was simple; to make the best, juiciest straight
up IPA we could. Using a wheat and oat-heavy grist and a soft, rounded
water profile we combined the heavyweight combo of Citra and Mosaic,
backed up with the citrus zest notes of Ekuanot and lastly El Dorado, an
often under heralded hop, which we’ve found ourselves choosing to more
and more recently for its resinous mandarin character which fits
beautifully with the classic tropical fruit notes of citra.
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