渾然一体 (Chromatic Fusion)

As we had done for Peacherine, the involved breweries spun a wheel to select the beer style, supporting hop, and wildcard ingredient for each beer. We ended up with Hazy Pale Ale, NZ Cascade, and cereal grains. We were quite pleased with this combination, and the beer came together quickly from there. The recipe starts with a Maris Otter base malt, and from there we leaned into our cereal grain requirement, adding just about every single one we had available. This includes Torrefied Wheat, Flaked Corn, Flaked Oats, and Flaked Rye. This gives the beer a nice haze and distinct body, adding creaminess and light spice to the malt while keeping it light in colour. The NZ cascade was used to bitter the beer via a mash hop addition, and added again into the whirlpool. We saved the Tropical Fusion for where it could make its biggest aroma impact by adding it into the dry hop, accompanied by some more NZ Cascade, with a little Riwaka and Nelson to round the combination off.

At 5.5%, this beer is incredibly sessionable, with huge amounts of tropical hop character. We did not hold back on the hops on this at all, so this beer punches above its weight class in hop profile, rivaling many IPA’s in that regard. Because of the limited lot size of this hop and how desirable it was, this hop was available in very limited quantities to brewers. So come give it a try while we’ve got it, because it won’t be around long and there is no more available!