Canned: 5/26/26

For our 10th anniversary, which aligns almost perfectly with the first anniversary of Human People’s Beer Cafe, we had to make a special beer with our friends and neighbors. Obviously it had to be a bold and oily West Coat IPA. There was no doubt it should showcase a metric ton of Mosaic. And above all else, we knew we had to load it up with a variety of hop products for a maximalist approach to this beloved style.

Bird Search was brewed with a simple base of pilsner malt and a dash of chit malt, allowing the excessive hopping to shine without distraction. In the boil, we used Simcoe Cryo, Columbus Cryo, and Mosaic. In the whirlpool, we added more Mosaic, Columbus Cryo, and Mosaic Incognito. At knockout, we threw in a new product from Yakima Chief Hops: Mosaic 803 (supercritical CO2 extract). We also added beta-glucosidase, an exogenous enzyme aiding in the biotransformation of flavorless hop compounds into aromatic terpenes during fermentation. After fermentation, we dry-hopped with Mosaic, Mosaic Cryo, Riwaka, and a smidge of Columbus Cryo. FINALLY, we dosed the bright tank with Riwaka SubZero Hop Kief from Freestyle Hops, for even MORE lupulin.

The result is absolutely saturated in hop oils, deftly balancing tropical fruit, citrus, berries, and sticky cannabis. Loud aromas of grapefruit hard candy and guava juice lead into flavors of tangerine gummies, fresh mixed berries, and resinous weed. A pleasant pithy bitterness lingers through the dry finish.