{"id":17077,"date":"2017-05-12T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=17077"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T16:38:44","slug":"beer-of-the-week-green-flash-brett-coast-ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/05\/12\/beer-of-the-week-green-flash-brett-coast-ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Green Flash Brett Coast IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brett Coast IPA from Green Flash Brewing’s Cellar 3 facility in Poway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0<\/strong>I have been fortunate enough to participate in a number of collaboration brews with San Diego breweries. My participation has ranged from lending elbow-grease on brew-days to conceptualizing beer styles.\u00a0It doesn’t get much better for a beer-nerd like me and each\u00a0has been an honor to take part in, not to mention a learning experience. But\u00a0it was an extra-special privilege coming up with\u00a0a fun idea with\u00a0Green Flash Brewing Company<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>barrelmaster\u00a0Pat Korn\u00a0<\/strong>earlier this year.\u00a0That brewery’s flagship beer, West Coast IPA, has been a long-time icon that helped define and communicate\u00a0the hop-centric nature of San Diego beer. Many are the beer enthusiast who have memorized its dank, tropical, citrus-like flavors and aromas, myself included. Which made\u00a0me all the more eager to find out what this beer would\u00a0taste like fermented exclusively\u00a0with Brettanomyces. Green Flash Brett Coast IPA<\/strong>\u00a0answered that question when it debuted earlier this week at an event for Beer to the Rescue<\/strong><\/a>, the anti-lupus campaign it was brewed to raise funds for.\u00a0For an in-depth description of this lovely beer’s characteristics, I will turn things over to the man who coaxed it into reality.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>“When Brandon<\/strong>\u00a0approached me about being involved in Beer to the\u00a0Rescue, I immediately said ‘yes.’ You see, my mother Barbara has Lupus, and I have\u00a0never lived a day of my life without it being a part of my life. My mom is a tough\u00a0lady, someone you don\u2019t mess with, but I have spent many days watching her\u00a0deal with the horrible effects of the disease. So for me, being involved in this\u00a0great fundraising endeavor was a no-brainer.\u00a0For this beer, we decided to harken back to our roots and re-brew a classic IPA\u00a0that has a long history with Green Flash. But instead of using boring old Cal Ale\u00a0yeast, we fermented the beer with our house strain of Brettanomyces. Two-row and C30\/37\u00a0Crystal are the malt base and the beer is hopped with Simcoe, CTZ and Cascade,\u00a0then dry-hopped with Simcoe, Citra, Centennial and Cascade. And just to\u00a0enhance that good old Vista flavor, the beer was then racked onto two-pounds-per-barrel of whole-leaf Simcoe. It clocks in at\u00a07.1% alcohol-by-volume\u00a0and\u00a0is a classic West Coast IPA, but the use of our house\u00a0Brett\u00a0adds flavors not usually associated with those beers. Dark gold in color with a full,\u00a0crisp head, the beer has aromas of pine and grapefruit from the dry-hopping with\u00a0verbena and horse blanket from the Brett. The flavors are an alluring mixture of\u00a0pine, lemon, verbena and grapefruit; with a strong Brett character of phenol\u00a0austerity and a seashell mineral-ity that adds a slight brininess to the beer.”\u2014Pat Korn<\/em>, Barrelmaster, Green Flash\u00a0Brewing\u00a0Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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