Post-Earth Day IPA

The third of this round of IPA piloting is concluding today.  I was going to make this yesterday and do a whole Earth Day thing, but then I realized that brewing is inherently not green.  There are plenty of measures that a brewer can take to cut down on their environmental impact and I fully embrace those.  I just have a hard time listening to some breweries advertise their "green" practices when I know many of the facts about byproducts during the brewing process.  I don't want to come off as knocking green practices, I am not.  I do think it is very important to watch and cut back on an environmental impact, it is just tough for me to listen to some of the green posturing when there are some unavoidable facts about brewing. 

Anyway, on to the brew.  I made some off the cuff changes to this batch while I was picking up my materials, basically I wanted to change up the hop profile quite a bit over the last two since they were very similar.  Here's what I got:

Post Earth Day IPA

Style: American-Style IPA
Malts: American 2-Row, Crystal, Honey Malt, Munich
Hops: Bullion, Cascade, Centennial, Galena
ABV: ~ 6.5%

So I have a building now, which is exciting and overwhelming.  Much of my time today and the next few days is wrapping my head around what to do next.  Seems easy, but I have spent the last 6 months in Boise getting ready to lease a space and now that it is no longer a dream, its like...now what?

Gotta Hop