Walker's Homebrew Belgian IPA gloriously welcomes Bin Laden's death and Pajama Jeans

Following my first homebrew, the Christmas themed King Moonracer's Revenge, the Belgian IPA was my my second foray into homebrewing (Belgian IPA brewing day)

All those monkeys celebrating like idiots in front of the White House reminds me to never send my children to college at Georgetown

After learning the basics of homebrewing, I wanted to make the beer style I like the most. Belgian IPA's are rare in Belgium (purists detest, Le Chouffe is the exception) and Americans have made the style their own. My particular favorites are the Green Flash Le Freak and several hoppy Breury beers. They're big bodied, sweet and extra hoppy. I love me some rich food and rich beer. It was to Frankenstein my own.

At 80+ IBU it's an incredibly hoppy beer. If the alcohol was higher, it would qualify as an Belgian Double IPA. Unfortunately, I still don't have a name for it (Double Dutch Rudder wasn't exactly PG), so for right now I'm going with BIPA.

The crowning remark I received after people first tasted it, was that it didn't taste like a homebrew. Best compliment I could receive for my second beer. There's still great carbonation and lace with the pour and the hops haven't mellowed with age either. The Simcoe, Centennial and Cascade hops provide a BIG hop bite that's incredibly distinct thanks to the super hop Simcoe. It's a hop combination that's unique and I'm quite partial too. The sweet malt body is compliments of a Belgian Pale Ale recipe from the Culver City Home Brew Shop.

What I learned from this beer and what I will correct in the next batch, which will be partial-mash, is that the body of the beer isn't big enough to handle the amount of IBU's. At under 5% alcohol, the beer is simply too light. I need to beef up the body so that the ratio between the Bitterness Units (BU) and the Gravity Units (GU) is 1. In this recipe, the BU/GU is at 1.81. I'd like to give this a Rock rating, but in reality it's not quite there yet. TRANSFORMERS rating. Still, I honestly feel it could be in the top 50-75 beers I've had this year.

So not only was I able to revisit a homebrew for a beer of the day, but they caught the most notorious terrorist in the world --

BUT, I was also to watch the most ridiculous infomercial I've seen for quite some time, the Pajama Jeans.

You're welcome:

The good stuff happens after :40