Vote on The Road to Hoppyness

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While patiently waiting for a post here, you can check out some hoppycook action on Instagram. 

International Beer Day

We really like ephemerides because besides the astronomical ones that are important, all of the other help us not to forget about lots of different important celebrations like artistic uses of pumpkins, the 1st of January, atomic bombs, 4/20 and today the Enrico Caruso and Fritz Lang day of death.

The most useless one is the International Beer Day. Every first Friday of August people try to celebrate something that should be celebrated every day, just like Christmas. 

The problem is that we've been so absent we can't avoid not to surf the buzz and have a few beers to make this post. 

Yesterday was supposed to be the IPA day. Today (or yesterday) is the international beer day, so we had some of our favorites home recipes yesterday (August 1st) and the Lagunitas Maximus today. Maximus is a sweet delicious double IPA that makes everybody happy. Sometimes too happy at 8.2%. The hops used also combine very well with the malt. It's not a Hopstoopid, one of our favorites, but is a real beer that doesn't mumble or ask permission. Thank you Lagunitas. 

We promise as soon as our beer recipes start coming our good enough to share, we will post those drinking alchemic secrets just like we did with the eating ones. In the meanwhile enjoy the diversity of beer that is finally happening, again and again.  

Cheers!

TriGomes Brewery 007IPA - July 2013

Hoppy Promises to Keep

We may have been lost but we have not

 forgotten.

There are still promises of Hopiness around every corner. 

Back from Outer Space

No more poppycock from the Hoppy Cooks. It was time to go directly to our beloved muse: Beer. So after much research and some helpful inspiration from friends (a very special thanks to our winemaking, beer brewing pal, Beth) and heavenly help, Trigomes Brewery was born. Our unstoppable thirst for knowledge through experience (the good old scientific way) has lead to us to tasting time for our second brew and almost the end of the fermentation of the third. 

We started with a beer kit that kindly generated the California Gold Rush 90-day IPA.  We later evolved into our Tantrum IPA, a nice double IPA, with recipe formation help from our friends at Barley and Wine. The Tantrum ended up being a good high volume IPA but didn't quite meet our standards for an amazing double. We are certainly learning as we go, and the lack of aroma in this batch is encouraging us to make dry hopping a big priority in the future.

Lucky number 3 will be named either Vesuvius or Psoas IPA. With the suggestion of our experienced friend, we used the same yeast from the Tantrum, fresh and so happy that it was enough to make a bit of an explosion in the fermenter as you can see below.

A fine farewell for now and more goodies to come as soon as hopossible...

Surf's Up

The Hoppy Cooks aren't lost in space. We're ready to celebrate our first anniversary with a new beginning. After months of silence a new wave is forthcoming. Catch it.