NEWS HERITAGE JOBS HOME BEERS PUBS EVENTS TOURS SHOP TRADE HOME / NEWS / LATEST NEWS / BREWER’S NOTES – SIPA: MOSAIC BREWER’S NOTES – SIPA: MOSAIC Friday 3rd December 2021 by Jess CASTLE ROCK'S "SIPA: MOSAIC" IS BACK! VIEW OUR BREWER'S NOTES HERE AND FIND OUR MORE ABOUT THE PROCESS BEHIND THE PINT. IT’S BACK! SIPA: MOSAIC DROPS AT 9AM, SATURDAY FROM OUR ONLINE SHOP ___ Earlier this year, following a couple of cans we were really pleased with (NEIPA and West Coast SIPA), we brewed SIPA: Mosaic and it quickly became an in-house favourite. Our mutually beneficial brewing partnership with Attic Brew Co. was still in its early days then but one year on and two collab beers later, it’s still going strong. So, to celebrate, SIPA: Mosaic is back – and this time in keg, too. A Christmas treat to everyone else that loved it so much, and to those that didn’t get to try it the first time around. (Also here for the festive season is Chocolate Orange Stout, which you can read about here.) Read on for notes straight from the horse’s mouth, our developmental brewer, Matt. BREWER’S TASTING NOTES: WATER CHEMISTRY The brewing liquor was treated with a 1:2 Sulfate:Chloride ratio, which softens the perception of bitterness and helps to create a fuller mouthfeel. MALT We used extra pale malt for the base of the grist in this beer, this gives the beer a light colour and provides a subtle, low key flavour profile. A higher mash bed temperature of 68⁰C leaves plenty of residual sugars in the finished beer after fermentation, as it produces more unfermentable sugar. When combined with the addition of oats, this lends the beer a smooth and full mouthfeel. YEAST Attic’s London Ale III yeast strain was used to ferment this beer, giving lots of fruity esters. It has low attenuation characteristics, which means the yeast leaves a lot of sugars unfermented relative to other yeast strains. This gives the beer a really ‘chewy’, full and lingering mouthfeel. It packs a whole lot of flavour for a low ABV, session pale. HOPS We chose to showcase one of our favourite hops, Mosaic, as the one and only hop in this beer. It’s a hop with a lot of depth, displaying tropical fruit, passion fruit and blueberry characteristics, as well as more aggressive pine and grapefruit notes. It brings a LOT to the table. For SIPA: Mosaic, we’ve dry hopped at 16g per litre, with the aim of providing a really tasty amount of aroma. The beer has an IBU level of 30, a suitably low level of bitterness, to let all the flavour from the Mosaic come through and do its thing. SHARE THE LOVE 0 0 CORE BEERS HARVEST PALE SESSION PRESERVATION SHERWOOD RESERVE ELSIE MO SCREECH OWL EXPLORE MERCHANDISE, BOTTLED BEER & TAKE-OUTS CASTLE ROCK QUARTER ACCREDITATIONS RECENT AWARDS 2018 - Winner - Castle Rock Brewery - Sustainable Tourism Award - Nottinghamshire STARS Hospitality Awards 2018 - Winner – The Canalhouse – Tourism Pub of the Year - Nottinghamshire STARS Hospitality Awards 2018 - Silver - Elsie Mo - Premium Bitters & Pale Ales - SIBA Midlands Beer Competition 2017 - Bronze - Elsie Mo - Premium Bitters & Pale Ales - SIBA Midlands Beer Competition 2017 - Gold - Elsie Mo - Best Bitters - CAMRA East Midlands Champion Beer of Britain 2016 - Gold - Traffic Street #8 Guns of Navarone (Premium Strong Beers) - SIBA Midlands Independent Beer Awards (awarded at) - Birmingham Beer & Cider Festival 2016 - Bronze - Sherwood Reserve (Stouts, Porters, Old Ales, Strong Milds) - SIBA Midlands Independent Beer Awards (awarded at) - Birmingham Beer & Cider Festival 2016 - Gold - Sherwood Reserve (Stouts) - East Midlands Champion Winter Beer (awarded at) - Hinckley and Bosworth Beer Festival SEE ALL AWARDS TO DATE © 2021 Castle Rock Brewery. All rights reserved. Castle Rock Brewery is a trading division of Tynemill Ltd. Reg. Office - Castle Rock Brewery, Queensbridge Road, Nottingham NG2 1NB. Registered in England. Company No: 1211426. TRICK OR TREAT! | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy Web development by BigSpring Web design by Threerooms Oops, it looks like you still need to set your Shopify API credentials. Please add these within the plugin settings and try again. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok