For more on how this beer came to be, see Why Hill brewing director Greg Winget’s Brewer’s Perspective: The Origins of Luminous Beings.
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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.054
FG: 1.016
IBUs: 35
ABV: 5%
Recipe: Wye Hill Luminous Beings
Described as “an ultramodern meditation on the relationship between hops and yeast,” this hazy pale ale—double dry-hopped with Mosaic and Motueka, and fermented with Omega’s thiolized Cosmic Punch—won gold at the 2022 Great American Beer Festival.
By Greg Winget
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