Recipe: Misnomenclature

As part of our second-annual Homebrew Summer program, various San Diego County breweries have teamed with amateur brewers to produce their homespun recipes on their commercial systems, then tap the resultant beers in their tasting rooms.

Today’s homebrewer-to-homebrewer contribution is a take on the popular cold IPA style developed by recreational fermentation fanatic Louie Ilievski. His recipe for a beer that would pair perfectly with a hot day spent at an ale-and-lager festival appealed to the team at Vista’s BattleMage Brewing, who were looking to brew a style they had yet to tackle. The resultant beer, Misnomenclature, is canned and ready to make its debut at BattleMage’s fantasy-themed tasting room this Friday, September 9. And if you want to take a look at the recipe, or perhaps even try to make the beer at home, just scroll down.

Check back to San Diego Beer News throughout the summer for more recipes as well as release dates for other pro-am beers. It’s shaping up to be a great summer for homebrewers and beer fans alike, and we’re stoked to have you along for the ride!

We chose this recipe because we were excited to try something new. Louie is a great brewer, and we were excited to scale up his recipe and share the adventure of bringing it to a larger audience. I think there are some interesting techniques with the new cold IPAs and we are stoked to be trying something different. One of the best parts about craft-beer is that it’s constantly evolving. I have the utmost appreciation for the classic styles, but I also appreciate that with just yeast, hops, water and malted barley, we can still find new styles even after 10,000 years of brewing.”

Ryan Sather, Co-founder, BattleMage Brewing

I wanted to bring something relatively new and novel as my contribution to the 2022 Southern California Homebrew Festival. Cold IPAs have been trickling onto the scene, and besides wanting to try brewing one I thought it would be an appealing, crushable beer to enjoy on a warm fest day. I was inspired primarily by the de facto originator of the style, Wayfinder Beer. However, I wanted to throw a little twist on it so that, rather than following the prescribed route of a high-bitterness IPA sporting hop notes most commonly identified with classic American hops, I went with a softer bitterness showcasing more tropical notes in the Azaaca while still giving a nod toward the original intent stemming from some of the dank characters in the Strata hops. Misnomenclature plays on the warm-fermented lager that is a cold IPA.”

Igor Ilievski, Homebrewer