Strata Single Hop IPA
Strata Single Hop IPA. Brewed by Spotty Dog Brewers in Hobart, Tasmania.
Those playing at home will be familiar with our Single Hop IPA series - Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra… Well, we’ve come full circle. It actually all started with Strata, and now we’re back: refined, renewed, rejuvenated.
We’ve kept the central principal the same: Let the hops shine.
Through a mix of hop products and hopping techniques across all our single hop brews so far, we’ve settled on two kettle additions (one early, one late), one long whirlpool addition, and a two stage cold dry hop at -1º with a mix of T90 and T45 pellets (T90 pellets are lightly processed, T45 are a bit more refined: more oils and more aroma compounds, less green stuff).
This lets us get every nuance from our hops into our beer: alpha acids and other soluble material through the boil and whirlpool, oils and aroma compounds in dry hop, unaffected by fermentation kinetics and biotransformation. A complex, full, yet clean profile of what Strata really means. To me it’s tropical but refined: Pineapple, mango, grapefruit and warm afternoons by the beach. Happy in the foreground if you want it but equally at home playing a supporting role.
Strata was the beer that inspired our Single Hop IPA series!
If you’ve been paying attention across releases you’ll have noticed the body of the beers changing too. Mosaic is big, amber, and malty. Citra was a little more restrained, a little lighter, a little finer. Strata keeps going on that theme: Full bodied, to balance the bitterness, but light in colour and flavour, to be easy drinking and thirst quenching. Let the hops shine. Blending Ale and Extra Pale malt has been key to this; Extra Pale has a little more protein and a little less sweetness, which lends itself to body without cloying the palate. Ale is the opposite, a bit sweeter and a bit lighter. Both in harmony gives that nuance of light, yet full, sweet, yet dry. Impossible. Delicious.
Available now. Taste it yourself and find out: What does Strata mean to you?
Details:
Yeast: US-05
Malt/Grain: An evolution on our Single Hop series, this malt is a blend of Xtra Pale (for body without “maltiness”) and Ale (for light malt sweetness and colour). Used together, these malts give you a warm golden colour, restrained malt character, and full body without sweetness - key for backing up the fairly significant bitterness from the hops.
Hops: Strata
Cheers,
Rhyley
Head Brewer
