I just found out about this from following the Port City Brewery's Twitter account (@portcitybrew). I'm not sure how I missed it in the paper, but it turns out that the day before we brewed "Theros", the planet Earth lost a craft brew pioneer famous for reviving and popularizing the Belgian witbier style of beer. Theros isn't exactly a Belgian wit, but we did tweak the recipe for a German hefeweizen in a way that might make it taste a little bit more like a wit. Typically, hefeweizens do not use flavoring and bittering hops in their recipes, whereas Belgian wits do, and we decided to add some, mostly because we had some extra hops that we weren't going to need for Brains 2.2, but also because we thought it would make for an interesting beer. Although we did not intend Theros to be a tribute, it is somewhat fitting that we did what we did the day after Pierre Celis, the original founder of the Hoegaarden brand (among others) and a proponent of craft brewing, passed away. I think I'm going to have a Hoegaarden tonight...
Read more about Pierre Celis here.
Un"wit"tingly appropriate? That's quite a pun.
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