Based on the exclusive and popular Canvent® 2023 beer by the Dromana-legends TWØBAYS, comes this collab to take Hazy IPAs to new horizons!
A heavily hopped Hazy IPA with a medium-full body and delicious tropical, citrus and light stonefruit character, but with a small difference from the usual hazys: It’s completely Gluten Free.
Two Bays surprised many punters with their popular “Broader Horizon” Hazy IPA released as part of Canvent 2023 and showed just what this Dromana-based brewery can do, sans wheat! The feedback and comments included multiple requests for this beer to be rebrewed - and we listened! After a quick recipe tweak to really dial in the haze and hops, it's ready to hit the fridges & taps!
Not ones to sit still, this was a great opportunity to collaborate, experiment and build on the last brew to create an even better! Heading down to Dromana on a beautiful sunny day came as the perfect inspiration for this tropical IPA. After a brewery tour and detailed look at alternative grains, which is the core of these beers, by TWØBAYS Head Brewer Kristian Martin and owner Richard Jeffares, we were blown away by these unique ingredients.
But as much as alternative grains are the backbone of these brews, the stars of this show in a Hazy IPA are the hops. Extensive sensory evaluation was done - from grinding, rubbing and steeping, before together deciding the hop profile we wanted for this new brew. One of the exciting new additions that has been added to this brew is one of the newest and hottest of hops in the market: Vista Hops. Vista hops are one of the most recent releases from the USDA public breeding program. The USDA public breeding program bred the genetic hop base on which American craft beer was built, such as Cascade and Centennial hops. This variety has Stone Fruit, Citrus, Tropical Fruit and Floral characteristics, with the potential of providing some Green Tea notes as well (from our sensory analysis).
The day continued with more of the TWØBAYS team joining us for lunch: delicious Gluten Free pizzas and more than a few refreshing beers! For those of you lucky enough to be living in the best city in the world (Melbourne), it's well worth stopping into their Dromana tap room on your next weekend adventure to the peninsular.
And after fuelling up, we returned to the task of brewing and proceeded to add hops in the whirlpool before cooling and transferring to tank to start the process of fermentation. For the yeast we’ve used Ferveo Yeast's unique new in-line Easy Pitch system, where the yeast is pitched directly during transfer into the fermentation tank. A great solution that manages to stay Gluten Free, different from many other yeast banks and producers.
Produced just in time for Coeliac Awareness Week and TWØBAYS' annual 'Free the Taps' event, we're stoked with how this Hazy IPA - the very first of its kind in Aus - turned out. In the glass you'll find a fruity and tropical delight with notes of peach, papaya and lychee, a medium-full body and packed with flavour.
Hitting all the Hazy IPA feels for GF beer drinkers and an interesting look at alternative grains and a new hop variety for those of us who drink all manner of beer. Available on tap, instore & online right now!
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