Mad Brewing / Oedipus Bienvenido
Berliner Weiise con piel de naranja, malta de cebada, trigo y avena
Oedipus Mama
Mama is our light and refreshing Pale Ale made with Centennial hops. A beer with which you can easily begin and end your day.
Mama was designed as a refreshing gateway beer to help people branch out, but without being overwhelming or too bitter. Mama is an American-style Pale Ale – which we think is about hops, but lighter and more easy-going than an IPA. Our Pale Ale (Mama) is hop-forward, but not aggressive, which makes it an easy-drinking session beer.
In addition to the bittering hops, we add multiple additions of Centennial hops – a classic, new world hop variety – at the end of the boil to give this beer a grapefruit-like flavor. A lot of hops are again added post-fermentation for aroma. We choose to highlight Centennial because it is one of our favorite hop varieties.
While being hop forward, Mama is the lightest, most easy-going beer in our hoppy beer spectrum: Mama (American-style Pale Ale) > Gaia (IPA) > Hosanna (DIPA). In comparison to our other hoppy beers, Mama has less focus on malts. We add just enough Pale Ale malts to ensure a 5% ABV.
We try to obtain a clean fermentation with an English Ale yeast strain, which adds a bit more body and fruity flavor to the beer. Given the lack of specialty malts, English Ale yeast helps contribute a sense of balance to the heavy hop bill.
Oedipus Gaia
A West Coast IPA brimming with refreshing hoppy and fruity flavors, Gaia wondrously combines earthly fertility with cosmic inspiration.
Gaia is an American, West Coast-style IPA. Here we not only amped up the hops, but everything else too!
The beer starts with a solid layer of base and some colored malts, which results in a 7% ABV beer. The malt bill and mashing regime of Gaia is all about creating enough body to mellow out its bitterness. By using hop varieties high in alpha acids during the boil – in order to derive sufficient flavor – it is crucial to counter the bitterness of these hop additions with the base beer.
We use four different American hop varieties – Cascade, Columbus, Chinook and Centennial – throughout the boil, which contribute piney and resinous flavors. Post-fermentation we dry hop with the same four hop varieties plus Amarillo, which lends a bit of fruitiness.
Gaia is literally the mother of Mama – not just because it has more hops, but since it also uses the same yeast strain that is both clean and slightly sweet.
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Un IPA de la costa oeste rebosante de refrescantes sabores de lúpulos afrutados. Combina maravillosamente la fertilidad terrenal con la inspiración cósmica.