After brewing some interesting beers over the past months, Brent and I both decided it was time to brew some drinkable, sessionable and wide-appeal beers. I decided to do with an Oskar Blues "Dales Pale Ale” clone and Brent did a Dogfish Head “60 Minute IPA” clone. Of course, because a) We are not Brian Lutz or Sam Calagione and b) Neither of us can ever leave well enough alone, and always want to make our own twist on things (this is not always a bad thing!), they both came out a little different than their inspirations.

I have had some super-positive feedback on this brew so far – it’s really nice to get compliments from people that say they would buy our beer if it was on the shelf! I’ve been successful in the kitchen for a long time and got loads of praise for my food over the years, but these compliments are very humbling Vee’s Pail Ail may actually be the first beer I will put into regular rotation!

I brewed this on National Homebrew Day, while trying to convert some friends to the hobby!

Here’s the recipe for the brew geeks who read