TapRoom Beer Company Creative Differences

TapRoom Beer Co. Creative Differences

After many months of discussion and ideation, we recently worked closely with the team from Pizza Port Ocean Beach to develop a pair of beers that would demonstrate each brewery’s prowess to the fullest. Sometimes we’ve just gotta highlight our creative differences!

We wanted to approach the design with each strength in mind, and in doing so blended our deep love of craft malt and specialty hops with their excellent grasp on process and technique. Through this process, we decided that we would mirror the design of the recipe – keeping to the same ABV and IBU targets, but brew one version with craft malt and advanced hop products, and the other with traditional base malt and T90 hop pellets (the classics).

At TapRoom, we produced Creative Differences by using only concentrated hop pellets and flowable hop extract a top a foundation of Genie variety malt from our friends at LINC Malting. This provided a super saturated hop expression that demonstrates a heightened profile of ripe passionfruit, pineapple, and nug nug.

At Pizza Port, we used the same hop varietals (HBC 586 & Mosaic) but in their traditional T90 pellet form – this action contributes more plant matter to the beer, which translates to rounded flavors of fruit and a widen textural experience.

The results are two really awesome beers. Creatively different, if you will. If you love a well-rounded, hoppily perfect WCIPA, you’ll love Creative Differences.