Level Beer, Old Town Brewing can a new idea: a clear and a hazy from same IPA recipe - OregonLive

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Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t.

That old candy bar jingle from over four decades ago, says Old Town Brewing founder Adam Milne, is the concept behind Friday’s release of an innovative collaboration between his brewery and Northeast Portland’s Level Beer: Make a clear IPA and a hazy IPA from the same recipe but use different yeasts -- one of the main factors in making a beer “hazy” or clear. Then sell the two beers together in a mixed four-pack.

Level has made the hazy, and Old Town has made the clear – or West Coast – IPA. The beers beginning today are available at the breweries’ pubs, then distribution begins to grocery stores and bottle shops in a different approach to packaging: four-packs that feature two 16-oz. cans of the clear and two cans of the hazy.

“I’m almost 50, so I was thinking back to my childhood about Almond Joy and Mounds,” Milne says. “And that’s the idea: do you want clean or do you want hazy? Some people like both, but not everybody. We thought we’d go off that juxtaposition, the yin and yang, and let them decide.”

That yin and yang theme plays out on the cans’ look, created by Jordan Wilson Designs, says Milne, whose brewery has locations in North and Northwest Portland. Level’s hazy comes in a black and gray can and represents the yin – or dark half of the ancient Chinese concept – while Old Town’s clear comes in reverse -- white and gray, representing the light half of the duality.

The Clear IPA and the Hazy IPA is a collaboration between Level Beer, which made the hazy, and Old Town Brewing, which made the clear, that uses one recipe but different yeast strains to create the two styles of IPA.Courtesy of Old Town Brewing/Level Beer

Milne says the collaboration evolved from the two breweries’ desire to work together, which produced a brainstorming session that landed on the concept. The malts and hops -- Meridian, Mosaic and Southern Passion – are the same, but Level’s Hazy IPA employs a yeast that produces the style’s trademark softer bitterness, creamy mouthfeel and juicier flavors. Old Town’s Clear IPA uses a yeast that helps deliver the more traditional West Coast style’s sharper bitterness and big flavor.

“I think it’s going to be exciting,” said Spyros Kollias Jr., Level’s sales manager. “I have a feeling it’s going to be pretty popular in the market, now that the holidays are coming.

“The main thing was having a four-pack that still is in the IPA umbrella but has the hazy and the West Coast,” he continued. “That gives the customer the opportunity to try the same recipe from two different breweries but different styles.”

Where to find the Hazy and Clear IPAs on tap and in 16-ounce can four-packs (retail $16)

Level Beer

Both IPAs are available packaged to-go at both Level locations but not on draft. Both Level taprooms did, however, reopen Thursday for outdoor seating and have their full array of other beers on tap. Online ordering is available for both locations. Northeast Portland taproom, 5211 N.E. 148th Ave.; Multnomah Village taproom, 7840 S.W. Capitol Highway.

Old Town Brewing

The Clear IPA and Hazy IPA are available on tap and packaged to-go for curbside pickup and outside seating at the Northeast Portland restaurant, 5201 N.E. MLK Blvd., which reopened Thursday for food and beer service. Online ordering available. The Northwest Portland location is temporarily closed.

Grocery stores and bottle shops

The four-packs will be distributed through Maletis Beverage’s network in grocery stores and bottle/specialty shops in Oregon and southwest Washington.

-- Andre Meunier; ameunier@oregonian.com

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