Recipe: Halfway Crooks Sanguine

From Shawn Cooper and Joran Van Gingerachter of Atlanta’s Halfway Crooks, here’s a recipe for their own “brewer’s beer”—a dry, bitter, quenching pale ale packed with Belgian-grown hops and accentuated by careful yeast expression.

By Joran Van Ginderachter, Shawn Cooper

September 4, 2025

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While its ingredients evolve, the DNA of this modern Belgian-inspired pale ale—one of the Best Beers in 2022 for the editors of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine^®—includes ample bitterness, plenty of Belgian-grown hops for flavor and aroma, and a unique blend of three dried-yeast strains. For more on the thinking and evolution of this recipe, see Ask the Pros: Belgian-Inspired, Hop-Forward, Crushable Pale Ale with Halfway Crooks.

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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.048 (12°P)
FG: 1.010 (2.5°P)
IBUs: 53
ABV: 5%

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