Heavy Seas – Riptide Returns 7/1 & Red Sky At Morning Coming 7/10

The official release party in the Heavy Seas Tap Room will be
Wednesday, July 1st from 3:00 – 9:00pm.

Riptide white IPA is a beer brewed with a malt body similar to a Belgian style Wit with loads of torrified wheat.  It’s hopped like an IPA, but we use a unique blend of Czech Saaz, French Strisselspalt, and Cascade hops to create a big citrus nose and flavor with floral accents.  To complete the feel of the wit style, we push the beer through our hopback which is loaded with Spanish sweet orange peel, Curaçao bitter orange peel, coriander, and a generous helping of hops.  It’s fermented with a classic Belgian Wit yeast which provides all of the fruity and spicy notes you’d expect.  We then blast the tank with our hop cannon which is loaded with Strisselspalt, and Cascade hops and more orange peel.  The beer is then lightly filtered to retain all of the exceptional yeast character.

Style: White IPA

ABV: 7.25%

IBUs: 45

Availability: July – September

Malts: 2-Row, Caramalt, Torrified Wheat

Hops: Warrior, Saaz, Strisselspalt, Cascade

Our "Uncharted Waters" Series will soon welcome its third new beer in 2015,

Red Sky at Morning!

The official release party in the Heavy Seas Tap Room will be

Friday, July 10th from 3:00 – 10:00pm.

According to our Brewmaster, Christopher Leonard,  "Red Sky at Night has been a popular seasonal product for us for a few years now.  And, while we do love it, we wanted to explore its "potential" by incorporating it into our "Uncharted Waters" program.  We have never done a white wine barrel-aged beer before, but the core flavors of Red Sky at Night seemed like they would be a good fit for doing so – with a few tweaks, of course.  Red Sky at Morning is a stronger beer than Red Sky at Night.  We added a higher percentage of sugar to the boil, we increased the hop flavor slightly, and we employed a different yeast strain that produced spicier esters.  All in all, we’ve retained the soul of Red Sky at Night, which is the sailor’s delight, while adding flavor and aroma dimensions in a 10% ABV version that definitely fits the bill of Red Sky at Morning – sailor take warning."

Style: Belgian-style Saison aged in Chardonnay barrels

ABV: 10%

IBU’s: 30

Availability: July – August

Malts: Pale malt, Wheat Malt, Acidulated Malt

Hops: Styrian Aurora, Hallertau Mittlefrue, French Strisselspalt