{"id":254,"date":"2012-08-19T23:11:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T23:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/brew\/?p=254"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:26:28","slug":"batch-4-tilted-jaw-ipa-1st-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/brew\/batch-4-tilted-jaw-ipa-1st-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilted Jaw IPA, 1st attempt (batch 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sputnik's<\/a>So, in our homebrewing “fantasy league,” the wife<\/a> and I came up with a bunch of names for our craft brews … mostly named after the pets or inspired by ancient culture. Among these is what we aspire to perfect: Tilted Jaw IPA. The wife and I are both big hop heads (despite my predilection for all things ancient and there having not been hops in ancient ales), so a tasty IPA homebrew is a must. And following our inclination for the pets as the naming convention, “tilted jaw” reflects not only the desirable mouth effect I hope the IPA will garner, but also the visual peculiarity of our cute little puppy Sputnik.<\/p>\n

Since I feel I’m still getting my feet wet in the homebrewing arena, I continue to lean towards the Brewer’s Best ingredient kits as a base, but I can’t just brew a batch straight from the ingredients provided in the kit. Must tweak!<\/p>\n

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Wines and grogs of the ancient world sometimes incorporated evergreen tree sap in the brew as a preservative, flavoring agent, and a sealant for the porous earthenware fermenting vessels (kinda like a glaze). Hence the famous Greek retsina. A slightly piney pale ale sounds pretty appealing to me, so I got to thinking it would be nice to use a hops with a somewhat piney characteristic. The gents at Brew and Grow<\/a> turned us toward Chinook hops with its “mild to medium-heavy, spicy, distinct piney aroma” (alpha acid 11.1%). We also got Wyeast’s Belgian Ardennes yeast just because the dude at the store suggested it. The latter in hindsight turned out to be a mistake, in my opinion, but it’s a learning experience.<\/p>\n