Pretty Things Flowerland IPA + Fumapapa

Will get online later.  In stock now at Forsyth

Pretty Things Flowerland Overgrown IPA...$9.99 / 22oz
The first new beer of 2015 is a smallish, one-off batch of around 50 barrels called “Flowerland”. You may have heard how difficult is has become for brewers to acquire some hops. There are many affects this has on a brewery: like waiting years to add a new beer to the repertoire, or replacing hard-to-get hops with cheaper and more widely-available varieties. Either way it makes for a frustrated brewer!

With Flowerland we took advantage of a rare correspondence – an email from someone selling their excess hops, in great shape and varieties interesting enough to build a beer around: Apollo, Rakau & Southern Cross.

Some of you may remember our other two double IPAs: “There’s No Place Like There” that we brewed with NAPAR of Spain and “Cutie Pie”. Well “Flowerland” is very different once again, nearly ruby in colour and sporting more caramel malt than you usually taste these days, it’s a bit of a throwback to the first big-bodied, hoppy, strong beers popping up in the USA 15 years or more ago. Look for citrus and pine, some almost Hallertau-like characteristics and maybe a bit of melon sitting atop and amongst a nutty, full-bodied, cherry-like malt base.

Pretty Things Fumapapa....$9.99 / 22oz
More Beardy Beer!
You may have drunk our Russian Imperial Stout, “Barbapapa”, inspired by the British traditional beer specially brewed for Catherine II of Russia. This beer lies at the intersection of our most popular beers & one of the hardest beers to brew. The pains of brewing this beer are not at all about nuances and fine-tuning. It’s much more about brute strength, wading through knee deep wet grain, a grueling 15-18 hour brew day, and an 8,000 pound double-mash grist (one full acre of barley). Doors are slammed, names are called, we curse wet grain and bearded Russians… and it all turns out great in the end!
If some or none of you still thought we were sane, non-masochistic brewers who draw pretty bunnies and wear top hats to bars, here’s your proof that we are indeed something other: Fumapapa. Here we introduce the second in our series of old bearded man, brewers-killed-by-brewing beers. Yes, it’s another monster, with over 1300 lbs of smoked malt added.
The worts from both mashes. The pale wort is “run through” the process a second time to gain its colour and renowned maltiness,
Smoke is meant to work in this beer and that’s just what it does. The vast majority of smoked malt in this beer is beechwood-smoked barley from the famous Bamburg maltings that everyone loves already, but there’s also peat-smoked malt from the UK and Oak-smoked wheat. It’s meant to be a full smokiness amongst the malty corpus (never say “malt backbone”, it just doesn’t make sense). We think it really works well. Jolly restrained. You might think we always think our beers work really well. Well let’s just say an artist rarely loves their work.
Anyway, here’s a work we love. Fumapapa. He’s smokey, he’s strong (over 11% abv) he’s malty as heck and he’s on shelves now. Please don’t make us brew this one again anytime soon!