While the hops junket represented Scott Vaccaro’s first trip to Yakima, here’s another first for Captain Lawrence: an India Pale Ale. While Captain Lawrence has of course brewed a Pale Ale and an Imperial Pale Ale, there’s never been an India Pale Ale—the name comes from when British brewers would hop the heck out of their beers to help them survive the long trek to the former colonies in India–hatched out of the brewery since it opened in Pleasantville in 2006. (The difference between the three members of the pale ale family is best explained over a beer—preferably something from that family.)
The brewery has invested in some serious hardware: a pair of 160-barrel fermenting tanks from Portland, Oregon, and a thousand new kegs from Germany, to get the ball rolling on the inaugural Captain Lawrence India Pale Ale.
“In almost seven years, we’ve never made an India Pale Ale,” says Scott. “We’re playing around with that now.”
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