Odell Brewing Adding Batch 1 IPA Non-Alcoholic Brew

Today I have a new NA beer, and this one is coming from Odell Brewing in Fort Collins, CO.

This is Batch 1 IPA Non-Alcoholic Brew and it will be a non-alcoholic IPA that will hit less than 0.5%-AbV. You’re looking at the 16oz can and stay tuned for release details.  zzubreebym

Label Text:

“With over 35 years of brewing experience, Odell is proud to introduce our first line of non-alcoholic brews. For Batch 1 IPA, our brewers hand-selecte the freshest modern hops to craft a highly aromatic beverage with bold tropical and citrus notes, balanced by a refreshing malt character. Join us as we explore the complex and rewarding world of non-alcoholic flavor, proof that full flavor doesn’t need full ABV.”

About Odell Brewing:

Founded in 1989, Odell Brewing was started by Doug Odell, his wife Wynne, and his sister Corkie. Over thirty years later, the culture of family and collaboration still thrives, fostering a brewery full of beer-centric people. It is this passion for beer that inspires Odell Brewing to create quality, hand-crafted, innovative brews.

Proudly Colorado

With the Rockies as our backdrop, Colorado has always been home. Visit our flagship brewery in Fort Collins or our Denver small batch brewhouses in the Five Points and Sloan’s Lake neighborhoods.

Independent Since ’89

The Odell family founded a brewery full of beer-centric people back in 1989. Odell Brewing is employee owned and committed to its independence for generations to come.

Investing In The Planet

We’re operating the largest carbon dioxide recapture system in Colorado craft beer, eliminating 1.4 million pounds of carbon emissions annually. Our commitment to process improvement saves over 10 million gallons of water per year.

Crafting Community

We contribute to hundreds of nonprofits annually, empowering their work in our communities. Each year, our co-workers volunteer over 2,000 hours and host over 50 non profit fundraisers.

Independent since 1989. 100% Employee Owned.

In 2015, the Odell family founders sold the majority of the company to its co-workers (now co-owners) in a combined management buyout and an Employee Stock Ownership Program. Since the beginning the people who helped build Odell Brewing Co have acted like owners. This just made it official.

Early Days

• Late 1970s | It all Starts with Scrubbing

  Doug Odell’s Passion for craft beer started in the 70’s with his first job at San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company scrubbing the mash tun.

• 1981 | Becoming a Homebrewer

  After his time at Anchor, Doug moved to Seattle where he continued to homebrew, perfected some recipes and met his wife Wynne.

• 1985 | From Honeymooning to Brewing Bliss

  While honeymooning in the UK, Doug and Wynne were inspired by the many small breweries that were successfully selling flavorful real ale, and decided they wanted to take Doug’s passion commercial.

• 1989 | Building Roots

  Doug and Wynne were looking for the perfect town to start their brewery. Doug’s sister Corkie was living in Fort Collins and sold them on the cozy college town, which unlike Seattle, didn’t have any other craft breweries.  The three of them joined forces to open up the brewery in 1989.

• Today

  The original brewery was located in a 1915 grain elevator just a few blocks from where the current brewery sits. Their first commercial release was Odell’s Golden Ale brewed with all malt and a modest hop build. 90 Shilling came along soon after, and remains the brewery’s top selling flagship.

Sometimes we can’t believe it’s been 30 years. When you have something as good as we’ve had at our brewery, life just flows.

Doug, Wynne & Corkie
Co Founders

The Art of Brewing

We take great pride in the pioneering advances we’ve made in developing innovative beer styles and brewing techniques. From the intensive study of hopping techniques to the comprehensive analysis of historic beer styles, we’ve identified the optimal assemblage of beer characteristics in each of our handcrafted brands.

• Malting & Milling

  Malted barley and wheat runs through the mill to be slightly crushed reveal the barley’s starchy endosperm, a converted fermentable. After milling, the grain is carried through an auger up into the mash tun.

• Mashing

  In the Mash Tun malt and water are mixed together in hot water for a half-hour, which causes the innermost sugars of the mash to spill out resulting in a sugar water called wort.

• Lautering & Boil

  The wort then goes into the Brew Kettle to be boiled for 90 minutes, while the spent grains go to a local dairy farm to serve as cattle feed. We add hops at different times during the boil to create a bitter mixture with a floral aroma.

• Hop Back

  When we’re making a beer that requires a little extra hoppy-ness, we turn to our infamous Hop Back. Here, the wort is strained through a bed of whole-flower hops. This adds the fresh, lively hop character you’ve come to enjoy in Odell IPA, Drumroll, Myercenary, and Mountain Standard.

• Fermenting

  Next the wort heads to the fermentor. We add a yeast that consumes the sugars to produce alcohol and CO2. After a week at 67°F we give the brew another two weeks at 34°F.

• Dry Hopping

  For beers that require a little something extra in the hop department we dry-hop them by shooting a cannon full of hop pellets right into the fermentor.

• Filtering

  Rather than filter our beers, we centrifuge them by spinning the beer at very high speeds. This removes the heaviest particles while leaving the essential hop oils and fine proteins to create a beer with better hop flavor, aroma, and improved mouth-feel and body.

• Packaging

  The finished beer is packaged into bottles, cans, and kegs. Every minute our packaging lines produce 2 kegs, 120 bottles, and 310 cans! This beer is kept cold in our off-site warehouse before it’s sent out for distribution.

Brewing Ideas into Life

All of our packaged beer is brewed on our 135 barrel, custom Braukon Brewhouse. However, many of these packaged beers started as just an idea on our 5 barrel Pilot System. Experimentation and innovation is at the heart of how we brew. Everyone at the brewery is invited to brew a beer on our Pilot System and share it with the locals at our taprooms,

See What’s on tap

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