Two incredible Pennsylvania breweries are hooking up on a collaborative brewing effort to produce a East Coast style IPA worthy of respect!
In talking with Jason Lavery, President/Brewer for Lavery Brewing Company, he gave me a little insight to the brew day with Full Pint Brewing scheduled for this coming Tuesday. The idea of doing a beer together sparked over a just by chance pint between Jason Lavery and Sean Hallisey when both of the breweries were in infancy stages, followed by another run in a few years later when Jake Kristophel of Full Pint called Jason to borrow some saison yeast.
Now the two breweries hang out on a regular basis at any number of Pennsylvania brew fests and as a solid community of beer heads would anticipate, a collaboration was born.
The well thought out IPA, will be brewed using Lavery's brewery in Erie, PA, now equipped with the resources to brew a big, hoppy, east coast style brew. After speaking with Jason about his general hop recipe, he said "There are new hops on the market every year and I want to play with them all. This is a chance to experiment with some of them. So we chose Apollo, Bravo and Delta hops and then decided on Columbus to make out A.B.C.D. Its a light orange in color with a good amount of Vienna malt, Finnish pale malt, a touch of biscuit a bit of light Crystal malt for sweetness."
"Not exactly sure what the hop profile will be, but it will have nearly 4 pounds of hops/barrel, half of which are in the dry hop, so it will be very fragrant and aromatic"
As your humble supplier of info, I must personally say I love both of these incredible breweries, and after last years beer dinner I did with Full Pint and the upcoming dinner I'm doing with Lavery on March 28th, as well as my love for East Coast IPA, I couldn't be more excited to see the results!
STOP! Collaborate and Listen!
-AGtheDir
