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Star Trek 50th anniversary beer celebrates with a golden ale

2016-07-22
hi this is Mike Sorrentino at see that I'm here with Dan Curie from schmaltz Brewing Company and we are here at the gas I'm Tavern in time for San Diego comic-con with the Star Trek 50th anniversary golden ale yeah tell me about the health of the inscription of his beer sure so our 50th anniversary gold now is the second beer in our line of Star Trek beers in the spring we launched our Vulcan red session IPA which was a beautiful amber kind of a really multi red session IPA for this summer we wanted to really do something in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Star Trek Smeltz Brewing Company we're celebrating our 20th anniversary of this summer so anniversaries to us are very important we wanted to really kind of feature the golden idea of the emblem behind Star Trek so we figured a golden pal L would be the perfect beer to match with that the the recipe behind the actual beer was created by one of our head Brewers drew Schmidt shout out to drew one of his favorite episodes of Star Trek growing up was the trouble with tribbles episode so in that episode a lot of Star Trek fans will be familiar with the fact they were delivering quadrotriticale on the enterprise which was supposed to be a super super grain that could kind of grow anywhere and it doesn't exist yet here in our measly 2016 but we do have triticale that's really been a fun beer to brew with it's a hybrid grain between barley and rye gives the beer a really nice kind of spicy pepperiness on the back end and then the hops that we've used for the beer galaxy Aurora Admiral some comet hops all have kind of a galactic tie-in and they give it a nice sweet fruitiness up top which really really balances well with that peppery finish and Hugh's mother decoration you guys have yeah these are our triple sniffles are creating a little noise don't you give this fear a quick shot it's the pale out Cheers mine yeah so that's what nice pale ale some like lights flavors but really really a little bit sweet I liked that bit of a pepperiness to yeah so again the sweetness is going to come from some of those fruity characteristics of the hot spring out but like you said on the back end it evolves into this kind of spicy pepperiness but all subtle it's a five percent beer you know the flavors are subtle super drinkable super sessionable just really nice smooth american-style pale ale and where can you find the beer all over if you're down here at Camp comic con man I mean we've got a whole list that I could read off to you if you need me to but bars here and in and out the area will have it on draft all week so you know if you're down here at comic-con keep your eye out have a pint and cheers to Star Trek and schmaltz brewing company yet all right and thank you so much for your time yep thank you guys for joining us they can here at gaslamp what's up thank you
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