Weird Beard 7th Church of the Apocalyptic Lawnmower

A Collaboration brew with A&H Brewery. We started with the Cream Ale, or the classic U.S. ‘lawnmower beer’. That is, a beer somewhere between a lager and an ale: clean, crisp and dry, yet malty and sweet. It’s the type of beer you crack open and quaff down while mowing the lawn/working in the ‘yard’ or drink in the sun on a lazy day. Then, we added a twist and took the beer off-style, as we quite often do, deciding on going for a Dark Cream Ale. Why? If you believe the likes of RateBeer and Untappd, we do dark beers very well. The idea of a Dark Cream Ale maybe doesn’t sound like a match made in heaven, but it does sound like the makings of an interesting beer. Using an adequate amount of flaked corn to still get the silky mouthfeel and sweeter flavours of a Cream Ale, we then added Black Prinz. We saw that little bit of dark malt would play with the coconutty flavours of Sorachi Ace. We upped the ABV and of course the hops to balance that out; there’s a little Summit to the hop mix. At Weird Beard, although we are some of the biggest fans of Sorachi Ace out there, we feel the addition of a little Summit really makes it sing.