For all the Treasure Hunters…
A group of shaggy-haired buds who called themselves the Waldos had a daily habit of gathering at the respectable time of 4:20 in the afternoon.
They were on the hunt for a secret garden somewhere up in the coastal California hills, according to their treasure map. The hunts were a bust. But their meetup code spread like smoke in the wind.
Our Waldos’ Special ale is a triple IPA made with that original crew’s hand-picked selection of the dankest, headiest hops around and it can only be scored around April.
Triple IPA, huh? For perspective, an IPA already expresses bold hop characteristics. Double IPA (or Imperial IPA, depending on your, like, opinion, man) is an even bigger expression of that bitter, hop intensity; not to mention alcohol content. So, a 420-Inspired Triple IPA brewed with some of Yakima’s dankest Citra and Mosaic hops? Yeah. It’s, uh, heady.
Herbacious. Botanical. Dank. Resinous. Available in Hiiiiighly limited areas in April. Word.
Beer math on ABV (Alcohol By Volume) is pretty straightforward… the Higher the ABV, the more alcohol in the beer. No rocket science necessary.
Generally speaking, a high IBU beer will have a more bitter taste than a lower IBU beer.
The OG measures solids in the wort before fermentation to consistently arrive at the same alcohol content of a beer. Pretty neat, huh?
Using the most sulfurous hops around, it’s as close to smokin’ as you can get while drinking a beer
Balancing the dank, taking cue from our Highly-balanced IPA, we layer orange & grapefruit notes via hops, making it way too drinkable for the über-High ABV
Oddly specific, yes, but if you know anything about the wonderous ponderosa pine, you know it doesn’t smell like generic pine. Once you get up in on the tree, you’ll notice the sap smells like vanilla … mmm, vanilla pine.
So, way back, before we opened the TapRoom and Beer Sanctuary in Petaluma, we would host weekly parties every Thursday up in our employee Loft, opening the taps at 4:20 to friends of the brewery and anyone that made the trek to visit us.
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