The hotel bar served Breckenridge brewery beers, which included the excellent hazed and confused, and several mediocre attempts at the standard styles which don't warrant any comment in this blog. Hazed and confused, however I will comment on. This was an unfiltered, dry hopped, aggressive American Pale Ale. Yep, lotsa qualifiers there that made for a very good beer. Of course the first thing you notice is the color. It's a deep copper, definitely hazy beer. The smell is like any good American Pale, lots of malt, hint of hops. The flavor follows in that balance, good malty taste followed by a hoppy dryness which encourages another gulp immediately. Awesome session beer.
The other Breckenridge worth mentioning was only at the hotel bar, and Glish's suite. The Mojo IPA. IBU wise, this wasn't much for an IPA, but flavor wise it hit the spot. The secret was in the use of only the most floral of hops, which made it kind of feel like you were drinking awesome soaked in rose petals. Definitely citra hops in there, and I'm not sure what else, but it was awesome. Smooth smooth smooth, and at a little over 6%. And when you burped, you burped roses, which was awesome.
As to my brew...I was considering letting it sit in the secondary over OSU, but I've been advised that may be a bit too long, so I will probably bottle in the next few days. Look for an update.
As for my next brew. I'm thinking of doing a belgian wit style (think blue moon), and trying my first hand at labeling. I'm thinking of calling it "McLuckey Ale" and trying to get it bottled before the McLuckey BBQ later this summer so that I can distribute it to the group. I mean, seriously, what other group has their own beer? I think that'd be cool as hell.
A Zwier group ale would have to follow, although I think there's enough fellow beer connoisseurs in that group that I can get away with a bigger beer.
*sorry...thought it best to edit out the angry part of this post*
-James
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