The latest article I wrote for The Bulletin came out this week, where I focused on Worthy Brewing’s new Dortmunder-style lager Peace and Salinity. It’s a beer with a twist:

Peace and Salinity is a lager brewed with lemon zest sea salt — but that’s not the unusual part. It was brewed with malt from Mecca Grade Estate Malt, located in Madras, which was malted during the Lionshead fire last summer. Smoke from the fire infused the grain, to give it a subtle smokey character typically only found in specialty malts.

“The malted barley out of the bag had a subtle yet noticeable aroma, but just through tasting the beer during conditioning, it’s very subdued,” said Worthy brewmaster Dustin Kellner via email, when I asked him about the beer.

“Our brewer Hayden Reynolds had the idea for this beer and wanted to brew a lager that was markedly different from the lagers we have been brewing the last year,” he said. “The Dortmunder style was chosen to embrace the higher ‘export’ ABV as well as an opportunity to benefit from the extra body that the (addition of) under modified (Mecca Grade Gateway malt) would provide.”

Besides sharing my impressions of the beer I also touch upon the Dortmunder export style a bit. This is the beer that also has lemon zest sea salt (from Jacobsen Salt Company) added—details in the article from Kellner.

And, I’ve got an addendum to post about the Mecca Grade malt used in this (and other) beers, via owner and maltster Seth Klann that I’ll post soon. More of a dive into the smoke and malting side of this equation which is super interesting!