Style: International Pale Lager   
ABV: 5%   
IBU: 18  
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We brewed our rice lager with a base of Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils and aromatic Jasmine Rice. Rice lightens the body and color of beers brewed with it, contributing a pronounced crisp, dry, and refreshing profile that is ideal for a pale lager. The result is a delicate lager with notes of toasted rice and water cracker, alongside a pleasant citrus hop note from Motueka. Our Rice Lager is light bodied with a very dry, and moderately bitter, finish.

Grains: Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils, Jasmine Rice, Acid Malt
Hops: Motueka
Yeast: House Lager

Style: American Wheat Ale      
ABV: 4.8%     
IBU: 20     
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American Wheat Ales owe their heritage to the Weissbiers of Germany, but while both feature significant amounts of wheat, the American version allows clean fermenting yeast to provide a more neutral background note. Additionally American brewers adapted the style to have a more significant hop presence. The resulting beer is medium bodied with a slightly creamy mouthfeel and a dry and refreshing finish. Our interpretation of the style has flavors and aromas that are bready and doughy, with a grainy wheat character from Murphy & Rude Malted Wheat. These elements are elevated by the citrusy and floral characteristics of Greenmont Hopworks Cascade.

Grains: Pilsner, Murphy & Rude Soft Red Wheat
Hops: Greenmont Cascade
Yeast: House Ale

Style: New Zealand Pilsner    
ABV: 4.8%    
IBU: 40    
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This year we decided to revisit this recipe and brew a Pilsner with New Zealand hops that is truer to the origins of the style, and allows for a harmonious blend of German Pilsen Malt and New Zealand grown hops. In years past our New Zealand Pilsners have tended toward an aggressive hop presence that didn’t reflect the delicate balance inherent to Pilsners, and our hope with this recipe is to rectify that. 

The aroma leads with fresh flowers and gentle notes of lemon and lime. On first sip this beer is round bodied with a bready sweetness, but a pronounced, and balanced, bitterness cuts the mouthfeel and allows for a crisp finish. The flavor is intermingled with malt tones of wheat cracker and fresh bread alongside hops tones of dried citrus peel and subtle pine and spice. 

Grains: Pilsner, Murphy & Rude Chit Malt, Honey Malt, Acid Malt
Hops: Taiheke, Nelson Sauvin
Yeast: German Lager

Style: Rotbier    
ABV: 5.8%    
IBU: 28    
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Rotbier, in German, simply means red beer, but it generally refers to a lesser known lager that derives its amber, to red, hue entirely from malted barley. This style is closely associated with the city where it originated: Nuremberg. Traditionally it is known for having a rich malt profile with notes of toasted bread, caramel, and biscuit. This is paired with a mild hop character that helps to create a clean and crisp finish. Our interpretation of this style has all of those elements, owing its color and semi sweet body to a blend of German Malts and Murphy & Rude’s Belgian Amber. To this we added German noble hops, before fermenting it with our preferred house lager strain. The result is a refreshing and easy drinking lager with a malt forward flavor and a floral and spicy hop aroma.

 Grains: Pilsner, Red Malt, Murphy & Rude Belgian Amber, Crystal Malt
Hops: Hallertau Mittelfrüh
Yeast: House Lager

Style: West Coast IPA      
ABV: 7.0%      
IBU: 50      
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Origin of Birds is a West Coast IPA that showcases Falconer’s Flight hops, which are a Yakima Chief proprietary blend of hops created to honor and support the legacy of Northwest brewing legend, Glen Hay Falconer. We combined this blend with Mosaic, to produce an IPA that has a distinct fruity aroma with notes of candied orange, and flavors of sweet grapefruit, fresh pine needles, and orange zest. While it maintains the drier finish and the refreshing character of a traditional West Coast IPA, we brewed this beer to have a slightly rounded body, and less bitterness, yielding a bright easy drinking beer with plenty of hop character.

Grains: Pilsner, Murphy & Rude Crystal 40, Acid Malt
Hops: Falconer’s Flight, Mosaic
Yeast: House Ale

Style: Hazy IPA    
ABV: 6.0%   
IBU: 8    
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The Art of Noises was designed to showcase Strata, the first hop variety to be released out of Indie Hops’ hop development program. Strata brings waves of different flavors and aromas, ranging from tropical fruit and citrus to subtle dank tones, and fresh fruit salad. We layered these notes on to a mildly sweet malt profile built on Pilsner and Murphy & Rude’s Malted Wheat. The expressive yeast used also makes itself known with peach and apricot notes throughout. All of this is presented with a soft round mouthfeel, and a bittersweet finish.

Grains: Pilsner, Murphy & Rude Malted Wheat, Flaked Oats
Hops: Strata, Cryo Citra, CryoPop
Yeast: Kveik

Style: Belgian Style IPA    
ABV: 7.0%    
IBU: 38    
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This beer highlights a combination of our favorite elements of IPAs with the traditions and methods of Belgian brewing. Leaning on a blend of American and New Zealand hops, the aroma is fruity and floral with leading notes of peach and apple blossom, but background tones of citrus and Belgian yeast help to round out the aroma. The flavor strikes a delicate balance between hop and yeast character, showcasing fresh grapefruit and dried lime alongside white peppercorn and and subdued clove. Finally the finish is very dry, akin to a Saison in balance, with subdued but evident spicy yeast notes and an assertive but pleasant bitterness.

Grains: Pilsner, Murphy & Rude Soft White Wheat, Flaked Wheat, Murphy & Rude Crimson Roast
Hops: Cashmere, Motueka, Citra
Yeast: House Saison
Other: Dextrose

Style: Brown Ale    
ABV: 6%    
IBU: 30    
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Turf & Twig is a dark semi-sweet brown ale that leans toward the darker side of the style. The aroma is nutty with notes of baker’s cocoa, toffee, and pumpernickel bread. The flavor has a rich maltiness that highlights nutty, bready, grains and subtle roasted tones. The medium body fades to a clean finish with just a hint of sweetness.

Grains: Pale Malt, Munich, Murphy & Rude Brown Malt, Honey Malt, Chocolate Malt, Crystal Malt, Acid Malt
Hops: Nugget
Yeast: House Ale

Style: Wheatwine   
ABV: 11.8%    
IBU: 30    
Package: Draft & 500ml Bottles to-go!!

This uniquely American style was created with the goal of replacing the hop forwardness of English Barleywine with a more fruit forward yeast presence, and a lighter color. Ours is a strong, malt forward ale brewed with a massive amount of Murphy & Rude Soft Red Wheat. It has pronounced fruity aromas of candied pineapples, fresh glazed pastries, and cooked cherries. Its rich sweet body has notes of caramel, peach, and honey. The beer finishes with an ample sweetness that is balanced by a subtle warmth and a soft carbonation.

Grains: Pale, Murphy & Rude Soft Red Wheat, Murphy & Rude CaraMel Light, Honey Malt, Acid Malt
Hops: Alora, American Noble Citra
Yeast: House Ale
Other: Dry Malt Extract, Maltodextrin 

Style: Bière de Printemps  
ABV: 7.2%    
IBU: 35      
Package: Draft & 750ml Bottles to-go!!

Literally meaning “Spring Beer,” our Bière de Printemps is brewed as a celebration of the return of warmer weather. While every year’s version is different, they are always beers that are designed to be refreshing, highly drinkable, and Brett forward. This year's vintage is a Saison, brewed with Greenmont Crystal hops, coriander, and a base of Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils and Abruzzi Rye. It was fermented with RVA Yeast Labs, Ghost Ale yeast before being packaged and allowed to naturally condition with one of our favorite strains of Brettanomyces.

The result is a floral and citrusy display of Brett, alongside a soft round texture and minimal bitterness. Natural carbonation balances the body, keeping it dry and refreshing. The aroma displays floral mimosa blossoms alongside lima orange and fragrant jasmine flowers. The flavor has some funkier Brett undertones, but they are balanced by more prominent notes of honeysuckle, dried lemon blossom, and freshly cut hay.

Grains: Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils, Murphy & Rude Abruzzi Rye
Hops: Greenmont Crystal
Yeast: RVA Yeast Labs, Ghost Ale, Brettanomyces bruxellensis
Other: Coriander

Style: Bière de Coupage  
ABV: 7.0%    
IBU: 5      
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Bière de Coupage is a phrase that has been used in different ways over the years, but in general refers to a blend of young and old beer. Inspired by this tradition of blending, we took a freshly fermented Sour Red Ale and blended it with two beers that both spent over twenty months in barrels, each conditioning with a different culture. This blend allows us to display mature mixed culture beer, with a complex profile and acidity, alongside fresher beer with a mellower profile and balancing bitterness, that would normally stunt the development of our other mixed cultures.

The fruit forward aroma leads with notes of blackberry, tamarind, and white cranberry, with subtle hints of clove and oak in the background. The flavor displays a much brighter acidity than the aroma would suggest, with tart notes of fresh lemon, sour cherry, and crabapple, that slowly mellow into notes of red wine and dried fruit. The body has a round juice like quality but quickly fades to a dry finish thanks to a mild bitterness and subtle oaky tannins.

Below are the beers blended in this year’s Bière de Coupage:

• Sour Red Ale, aged over two years in barrels with our “Slashes” Wild Culture

• Dark Sour, aged over one and a half years in barrels with our “Resettle” Culture

• Sour Red Ale, fermented and aged in stainless steel with Belgian Ale yeast and a Lactobacillus blend

Grains: Murphy & Rude 6-Row Pale, Murphy & Rude Malted Spelt, Epiphany Malted Wheat, Greater Richmond Grains Organic Raw Wheat, Murphy & Rude Soft Red Wheat, Murphy & Rude Pungo Creek Bloody Butcher Corn, Murphy & Rude Belgian Amber, Red Malt, Vienna, Crystal Malt
Hops: House Aged Hersbrucker
Yeast: “Slashes” Wild Culture, “Resettle” Culture, Belgian Ale, Kveik, Lactobacillus Blend, Brettanomyces bruxellensis
Other: Belgian Candi Syrup