Surly Adding Travis & Taylor Experimental IPAs

The Beer Hall’s two newest IPAs utilize Hopsteiner’s experimental #16660 hop. One uses our house yeast, the other uses Omega’s Cosmic Punch thiolized yeast.
(Thiols are flavor and aromatic compounds found in hops and malt, and a thiolized yeast helps unlock those via biotransformation.)
Rather than name them something boring and accurate like 16660.1 and 16660.2, we called the house IPA Taylor and the thiolized IPA Travis. This helps us both tell them apart and ideally floods the Beer Hall with Swifties and/or fans of elite tight end play in the dead of winter.
Travis leans more citrusy (grapefruit, lemon, pineapple) while Taylor’s version (get it) offers orange, malty aromatics. If you’d like to learn more, read Jess Fleming’s interview with Surly’s Ben Smith in the Pioneer Press, then stop into the Beer Hall this week and try them both!

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