Zephyr
There’s A Storm Brewing.
A 9.2% Double IPA aged for 21 months in a 1965 Invergordon cask with 30 kg of fresh highland strawberries. This beer is a riot of whisky, caramel and strawberry, all tempered by a toe curling bitterness enducing rapture in all who taste it. Who needs champagne?
Malt: Extra Pale (6.3 kilograms) Malt: Caramalt (0.38 kilograms) Malt: Crystal 150 (0.29 kilograms) Hops: Columbus Extract (31 grams) - start bitter Hops: Columbus (19.5 grams) - start bitter Hops: Columbus (19.5 grams) - middle flavour Hops: Centennial (19.5 grams) - middle flavour Hops: Simcoe (19.5 grams) - middle flavour Hops: Columbus (19.5 grams) - end flavour Hops: Centennial (19.5 grams) - end flavour Hops: Centennial (115.5 grams) - dry hop aroma Hops: Columbus (96 grams) - dry hop aroma Hops: Simcoe (96 grams) - dry hop aroma Hops: Amarillo (77 grams) - dry hop aroma Yeast: Wyeast 1272 - American Ale II™
- Poached eggs and smoked salmon - Salt and pepper squid - Key Lime Pie
Rack into a secondary fermenter and add your strawberries. Use a blow-off rather than an airlock as the fermentation can get pretty wild as the yeast starts using the sugar from the strawberries.