Old Wives Pacific Northwest IPA

TASTING NOTES

Talus hops (previously known as variety HBC 692) are quickly becoming a favourite of both IPA brewers and drinkers around the world. With intense flavours of citrus, flowers and pine, they’ve paired this new variety with standouts Mosaic, Citra and Summit. All of these varieties come out of the Yakima Valley region in America’s Pacific North West known for its spectacular coastline, green interior and rocky mountains. A beautiful part of the world they only wish they could visit right now….hopefully this beer can virtually take you there!

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

Starting out as home-brewers, the boys at Old Wives Ales commandeered soup pots for kit brews and watched on as plastic tubs of murky liquid burped and bubbled in their sheds. It was yellow, it was fizzy, but it wasn’t good. Not in the beginning. But they were learning. They have each earned a first rate home-brewing education in exploding bottles, dead yeast and beer that tasted more like cardboard than malt, taking heart from the fact that slowly but surely, the beer was getting better.

DID YOU KNOW?

Justin Spicer, co-founder of Old Wives Ales and also the Merri Mashers, discovered his interest in home brewing when a friend invited him to a “brew on premise” venue. He learnt the basics in brewing that night which ignited his passion for craft beer and brewing. Justin soon learned that there were several home brew clubs around Melbourne, however there were not any in the Northern Suburbs. It was this realisation that inspired him to become the inaugural president of a new home brew club two years ago. Merri Mashers now has over 75 members and is one of Victoria’s biggest home brew clubs today.