Freaky Fresh! Hazy IPA

Name: Freaky Fresh! Strata Hazy IPA Style: Hazy IPA ABV: Less than 0.5% ABV  Quantity: 4pack/16oz. cans Description: Strata was by far one of our favorites from last year's fresh hop season. This year, we knew we needed to use it again during fresh hop season, but we wanted to mash things up with inspiration from our flagship Freak Flag. Our head brewer Aaron thinks some of the very slow tweaks to Freak Flag, and lessons learned, will lead to some improvements of the already amazing edition of last year. This year, albeit it a little crazy, we decided to mash hop the batch with pellets. He'd actually never even done that before. It’s not by any means a new technique, heavily practiced by bigger breweries like Firestone Walker and Stone of ages ago. Aaron wanted a smidge of under current bitterness in a hazy but really didn’t want to overshadow this massive fresh hop steep. We ran with a somewhat typical Freak Flag mash profile that highlights Skagit Valley Malt, and we have been dabbli