Double Dry Hopped Des Moines IPA W Grapefruit

Some people say you shouldn’t mess with a good thing... but those people probably don’t brew beer for a living. We tried a few small batch cask variations of our beloved Des Moines IPA and thought they were too good not to share! Keeping the same malt bill and similar kettle hops, we made our big changes in the fermenter by using a different yeast strain and, in a major shift for this beer, we dry-hopped before fermentation was complete. The madness continued with a healthy post primary fermentation dosing of bright and tart grapefruit puree to accentuate the hop character. Did we stop there? Of course not! We added a healthy second dry-hopping to the mix after secondary fermentation. We removed some of the original varieties, but kept Simc Show Less