Smiling Sky Summer Pale Ale

Happy Head Brewing continues to grow! Our first batch to keg and have on tap is a hopefully very citrusy, refreshing pale ale. The Citra hop was elusive, so we used some quick substitutions which should do the job and be a bit more complex than a single hop recipe (though we still want to try that one day).

This batch benefited from a small investment: a wort aerator. This little stone is full of millions of 0.5 micron holes through which filtered air will boost the oxygenation of the wort, hopefully helping the liquid yeast do its job more efficiently.

In a few weeks the pale was ready to keg and carbonate. 

Now that's a pretty pale! We were looking for a citrusy ale, and citrus is what we got. The aroma of this beer is like holding a bag of fresh cascade hops to your nose! We also nailed our final gravity target, helping us feel a bit more accomplished in the technical side of things.

Smiling Sky Summer Pale Ale, glowing in the sun, right where it should be enjoyed. This one has been a treat to sample and over the weeks of dry hopping, the bouquet has only improved. It's a crisp, clean, refreshing summer-time pale, and hopefully the first in a long series of beers to get added to our keeper list.

We collaborated on the design and Chris put the digital skills to work to create the logo, a must for any respectable beer that plans to stay in the rotation. More about this recipe can be found on our keeper beers page, found here.