Sixpoint Craft Ales
Sixpoint Eyes Georgia Expansion
Sixpoint Brewing (Brooklyn, NY) is currently eyeing expansion south into Georgia. The brewery has recently shopped distributors, and toured the Atlanta beer scene. While no official decision has been made yet, Sixpoint ideally would like to make the jump into the southern market in January, 2013.
Sixpoint’s Spice Of Life Release Schedule
Each month, Sixpoint Brewery (Brooklyn, NY) releases a single hopped IPA in their Spice Of Life series. The recipe remains the same, but the hops are different. Similar to what Mikkeller has done in the past. The series gives the drinker a real tastebuds on perspective of the different flavors and nuances of various hop varieties. Below the Spice Of Life schedule through June, 2013.
Want to take it further? I thought you might. Here is Sixpoint’s handy, dandy flavor wheel to guide you in your hop journey.
Sixpoint Brews with Spruce Tips
This is Sixpoint’s Mad Scientists Series release #10 – Spruce Tip Ale, which is already hitting taps this summer. Sixpoint’s brewmaster Ian McConnell picked fresh spruce tips on vacation in Maine. A special recipe using crystal and pale malts was created to compliment the sprucy flavor.
How did it come out?
These fresh spruce tips lend a surge of brightness to the beer at first sip, balanced with a kick of bitterness from the hops. Its gentle aroma is slightly floral and fruity, and the finished beer has an IBU of 35, and ABV of 5.3%.
Sixpoint Tenement Ale
Fans Choose Citra For Next Sixpoint Autumnation Brew
Sixpoint recently ran a poll to see which hop its fans wanted to see in their fall seasonal. Come this fall, Autumnation will be wet hopped (fresh hopped with just picked hops) with Citra hops.
Our Autumnal brew is made with subtle pumpkin and spice, but its prominent feature is the fresh harvested “wet-hops” that are added. New hop strain and selection every year.
Style: Pumpkin Beer
Availability: Cans, Draft. Fall seasonal.
6.7% ABV
Sixpoint’s First Summer Seasonal: Apollo
Today, Sixpoint launched their first summer installment in their seasonal can rotation. Apollo has arrived. From the brewery:
The last time we launched a new beer, we dissected and glorified the hop cone. As many have noticed over the years, Sixpoint has a fascination – bordering on obsession – with hops. Today we are happy to announce a complete change of pace. We are offering you an entirely new canned creation brewed with finesse and subtlety. The secret and story in this beer is not within the hops, but instead within the yeast.
Apollo is the first-ever summer installment in our seasonal can rotation, and a new style for the brewery as well. In a white can to reflect the sun as well as nod to one of its main ingredients, white wheat, this ale is a clear, bronze-hued elixir to cool down those oncoming scorching days and sweltering evenings.
The inspiration for Apollo came from a land that is very dear to beer. Over the past few years, we’ve traveled to Bavaria several times to experience again the truly golden qualities of their weizens, or wheat ales. A collaboration between Sixpoint Founder/President Shane Welch and Sixpoint Braumeister Jan Matysiak, a German native and Weihenstephan Institute alumnus, the recipe was developed over many tastings and tourings around Bavaria, and put into action back home. Using an ancient Bavarian wheat ale yeast and a 50/50 ratio of wheat malt to barley malt, Apollo ale pays homage to its tried-and-true roots while offering a twist on tradition.
We invite you to witness the story and watch the full-length video to accompany the arrival of Apollo. This video was compiled from raw footage while in Germany where we learned and philosophized about wheat beer.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and have a toast to a long summer ahead. Prost!
Sixpoint Apollo (Full Version) [Video]
Sixpoint travelled to the home of Bavarian wheat beers – Germany,to create Apollo. The mad scientists have created what they believe to be the perfect summer beer.
