Lew Cadybuys (right) buys first Belgorado fourpack
Lusciously hopped but artfully balanced, Belgorado is a golden beer rich with pale malt flavors, layers of hops from start to finish, and spice notes. It is 6.7% ABV and has about 45 IBUs.
Our new year-round canned good features Colorado terroir in every sip.
Belgorado is made with whole-leaf and pelletized hops from Misty Mountain Hop Farm, a pioneering little hop farm in Olathe, CO. The farm is now in its fourth year and grows 16 acres of hops.
Belgorado's main ingredient is a Belgian-style malted barley from Colorado Malting Company, a small, family owned farm and specialty maltster in Alamosa, CO. Now in its third year, Colorado Malting grows its own barley and malts its Belgian-style malt in a slow, retro-minded fashion.
Jason Cody, CO Malting
"We use warm moist air instead of dry heat," says Jason Cody, company president, "and slowly malt the barley for 7-8 days instead of the usual 3 or 4. That process creates a more plump, fully modified grain with more sugar. It's 100% natural, made the same way Europeans malted barley 500 years ago."
These home-state ingredients are skillfully blended by Brown and his staff, then fermented with a Belgian yeast.
"My goal was a simple recipe that allows the qualities of our native-grown ingredients to shine through," Brown says. "But with a Belgian yeast strain that adds complexity and joins with the spiciness of the hops."
"The beer is a nod to the drinkability of a Belgian pale ale, a trait I really love," Brown adds. "But with our Colorado-grown hops and their lemony tartness, Belgorado gets extra layers of flavor without being overly bitter."
Belgorado Fourpack
Belgorado is handcrafted and handcanned at Wynkoop Brewing Company on a table-top canning machine from our pals at Cask Brewing Systems.
Te beer is now available in the Denver area in fourpacks of 12-ounce cans, with a suggested retail price of $7.49/fourpack.
The beer's small-farm malts and hops make it an especially valuable beer to the local farmers producing Belgorado's signature ingredients.
"Wynkoop," says Robert Munger of Misty Mountain Hop Farm, "is an iconic Colorado brewery and one of Denver's best. We're very excited to be working with such a historic brewery."
"This Belgorado project is great for our family business," Cody says. "Wynkoop is really supporting the local economy with this beer and it's very helpful to us."
