Description
€ 24,95 | 440 ml | IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy | ABV: 8,1 | ☆ 4,43
About Foggy WindowNelson, Galaxy and extra Citra hops.
About Monkish Brewing Co.
At some point during my time with Henry Nguyen, he looked me dead in the eye and said, “I’m not a person that was meant to own a business.”
He’s right. He’s also anxious, neurotic, and indecisive. He’s attention-averse. He’s not even all that interested in making money.
Despite all those things, Henry owns Monkish Brewing Company. Because of all those things, Monkish makes incredible beer. He co-owns the brewery with his wife, Adriana, and they have no investors, which means they decide everything.
When Monkish opened its doors in April 2012 in the South Bay region of Los Angeles, the plan was to make predominantly sour beer. At the time, places like The Rare Barrel and Crooked Stave weren’t quite off the ground—comparable business models were hard to come by.
On top of that, the Nguyens had poured every cent they could muster into buildout, and couldn’t afford even a single barrel. So for the first year, they decided to focus on clean interpretations of Belgian styles—the same styles Henry had fallen in love with while earning a PhD in New Testament Theology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
During that first year, he brewed every batch of beer and manned nearly every shift in the taproom. The old, three-handle kegerator that served as the draft system could only hold two sixtels, which was fine for a while. Once a third beer was added, however, one keg would sit outside the fridge and be rotated in every hour on the hour.