KISMETIC BEER COMPANY VISIT
Hoppy visited Kismetic Beer on Saturday for the Race Into 201 Studios event. Like Scarlet Lane, Kismetic is a woman owned business with owner Nicole Oesch, who handles the front end of the business, collaborating with her husband Randy, who is the brewer. They are located in a 100+ year old building and their interior design is a retro chic 1970’s style.
While visiting, Hoppy had his first taste of a Cold IPA! No, a Cold IPA is not a refrigerated IPA, nor is it a form of Ice Beer popular in the 1990’s. A Cold IPA is described as a hybrid beer using lager yeast and pilsner malts brewed at higher temperatures than a traditional lager, with a large number of hops. Wayfinder Beer, out of Portland, Oregon, who made the first Cold IPA in October of 2018, describes it as follows: “Cold IPA hits with a strong punch of aromatic hop intensity and high bitterness but finishes crisp and clean leaving the drinker craving another sip. It’s Wester than West Coast.”
Hoppy enjoyed the Kismetic Cold IPA described as crisp and dry with aromas of pine and citrus, bitter and crisp on the palate. It is dry hopped at the end of fermentation to achieve fruit forward bio transformation. It clocked in at 6.4% ABV, 50 IBU.
A recent video on Kismetic Brewing can be found here.
