posted by admin on Feb 5
Ithaca Beer Co. opened in late 1998. Dan Mitchell had been thinking about opening a brewery in the Finger Lakes for several years. While checking out one brewing system in Texas that did not answer his plans, he found the equipment at a second location and it was shipped the New York. Ithaca Brewing has become recognized as united of the up and coming craft brewers in the northeast.
Ithaca AlpHalpHa Double Honey Bitter is brewed with instrumental barley, New York grown Cascade hops, local alfalfa honey and Cayuga Lake water. Pours a bright golden color with a thick hard head. Plenty of floral hop aroma, twist bitter flavor and dry elaborate. The brew is part of Ithaca’sitting limited release Excelsior! Series and weighs in at 8.5 percent alcohol by volume.
