Pale Ale

This is the first recipe we brew at our brewing classes! An easy to make, but delicious to drink Pale Ale. Learn how to brew it at our class, or take a stab at it on your own!

We LOVE hazy IPAs here at KJ, and we’re not alone. More and more breweries are making super juicy, hop forward beers. Hell, we have 3-4 recipes that are all like that. One thing all of these delicious hazy beers have in common is their high ABV. They tend to range from 6.5-8.5%, but sometimes you simply don’t want a beer with that much booze in it. Enter HAZE, designed and brewed by our very own Jeremy Morris. HAZE has the same super juicy, hop forward notes of NEIPAs but in a sessionable package. Registering in at 5.3%, it is just that bit lighter from its bigger hazy brothers.

It’s the dead of winter and we’ve been drowning our malaise in thick porters and stouts. There is still lots of winter left, and yet, we are also embarking on the last leg of this winter journey. This beer is a homage to both heavy winter beers, and lighter spring brews. It features a malt heavy profile that is bolstered by a sweet bitterness imparted by the Sabro hops and the Escarpment Labs produced Voss Kveik yeast.

Ever since our first version of Super Sesh was released in January 2019 we have been hard at work iterating on this simple, but delicious recipe. Batch after batch was attempted, enjoyed, and then improved upon. We took meticulous notes and studied hard. Ultimately, we came up with a triumvirate of beers for the month of May.

What better time to think of the plight of the university student and their perpetual lack of funds than September. This is the month Guelph’s population swells with students, and so we have a beer specially designed for the student budget, but everyone’s taste-buds. Our goal was to design the cheapest beer to make that still tastes good. This is “The Student” a CPA for September. BUT, because we love students so much we will be extending this promotion on this beer INDEFINITELY!!!

This beer is amber in colour, it has a nice full bodied malty flavour with light hop bitterness to back it up. It will be easy drinking and respectable. We hope you enjoy it!

Sometimes you just want a beer. That’s it, a beer, it’s gotta be simple, easy drinking and it doesn’t need to have any sort of fun story behind it. It’s a beer. It’s not too malty, too hoppy, too sour, too boozy, too pretentious. It is just a beer, a damn good one at that.

This is a simple, easy to make pale ale recipe that can fit any day that ends with a y. Keep on reading to learn how to make this brew. 

Beer is kryptonite for the average dad bod. It’s cold, crisp, succulent, delicious flavour is full of stomach expanding carbs. This is especially true after a turkey and beer filled December. Now with the holidays over, it’s safe to say we’re all feeling a little bloated at KJ. January is a great time to cut down on the excesses of December, and in this spirit we’re making a very low calorie, sessionable beer for January.

GET TO DA CHOPPA! Is a hop forward pale ale. It has big pine and floral aromas balanced by the malt backbone of the beer. The kind of beer that could be had anytime of the year.  So, grab a seat on the couch a re-watch Predator for the 100^th time, but this time make sure you’ve got a cold glass of Choppa in hand.

What we have here is a hop forward pale ale without too much bitterness. It is clean, low in alcohol but full of crisp citrus flavours. It has quickly become a favourite of ours at KJ, and a crowd pleaser with our friends and family.