Harvest is here! 

As my alarm went off at 4:30  Monday morning I instantly regretted my desire to focus on wine hybrids this year.  A brewing system doesn’t know what time it is, but a grape does and alas they like to be picked when its cool outside. 

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Libertine Brewing Co
A Wild IPA By Any Other Name…

Wild IPA is an anomaly in the beer world. It might fit in somewhere in the countryside of Belgium and France or on a sunny beach on California’s central coast. The Belgian-style IPA, or Brett IPA, doesn’t receive a lot of love in the brewing world because it is hard to pigeonhole it. Sometimes you get those funky brett farmhouse aromas, other times the Belgian yeast strain will overpower any hops. Brett will dry the beer out and the bitterness can be overpowering.

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Libertine Brewing Co