Our Beers

While specializing in New England IPAs and hop-forward styles, Nick has award winning expertise in a variety of styles, including collecting 9 medals across 6 different styles in just 15 homebrewing competition entries over the last few years.

Below is a list of the specific award-winning recipes.

In addition to expertise in the above styles, Nick DeFae has additionally been undertaking significant R&D into new and innovative styles:

Small Batch Series

An exploration of “tiny” beers (under 3.0% ABV) has led to significant improvement in the process of creating low-alcohol but big-flavor drinks. This process involves careful manipulation of mash temperatures and pH to increase unfermentable longer-chain sugars resulting in body without sweetness, yeast selection, and a grain bill focusing on richer flavors. Coupled with precise, research-backed dry-hop adjustments to maximize the juicier aromatics without overloading the smaller body can result in a shockingly delectable “Hazy IPA” at just 2.9%. This is an area Nick sees a unique competitive advantage over local and even regional breweries, where these types of beer are extremely rare due to the significant effort in refining the process & recipe to find the sweet spot between cloyingly sweet to thin and watery; commercial examples these styles often end up too far on one of these extremes.