In the spirit of Halloween I brewed up a monster IPA based on a recipe from the famous US brewer "3 Floyd's Brewing" in Indiana. The beer is appropriately called "Zombie Dust" and is a classic American IPA/Pale ale loaded to the gunnels with Citra hops which impart a tangy orange/grapefruit flavour which balances nicely with the 6.2% alcohol. For this brew I used a new product called Lupuln2 hop powder which is essentially just the flavorsome parts of the hop flowers (the lupulin glands) extracted and freeze dried; it's potent stuff, and has the benefit that you can dry hop your beer for much longer without imparting any "green" off-flavours from the leaf material that you usually get in hops.
Only had time to try a single glass last night but so far it's looking good, really well balanced, couldn't detect any booze (which is dangerous for a 6%+ beer) but it meant the fruit flavours shone through; it will benefit from a few more weeks of conditioning but pleased with the result, pretty authentic.
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