Google Beer “Gigabit IPA” from Hopworks Brewery in Portland, OR
created April 02, 2010
"Hopworks unveils our newest seasonal, Gigabit IPA. This special beer was made in conjunction with Portland's geek, creative and beer communities to help the City of Portland convince Internet giant Google to build an innovative gigabit fiber network here.
This fresh & edgy IPA honors Portland’s new gigabit network project to pioneer a connected future with Google fiber-to-the-home. Embrace the bandwidth with a massive NW hop aroma, with rich citrus and pine accents aggressively balanced with clear malt caramel flavor, and a deep, clean, satisfying finish."
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Portlanders are serious about three things: Beer, technology and our community. To continue to let Google know we are the right choice for their Google Fiber to home network, we decided to open source the Gigabit IPA recipe that Hopworks created. This will allow other cities the opportunity to brew this fine beer. The code for the beer or recipe is available on Google’s open source code website and below.
When Google invited America to get inspired by gigabit fiber technology, Portland’s innovative geek and brewer communities responded by creating a fresh and edgy organic beer to answer Google’s call. Portland Gigabit IPA offers a massive NW hop aroma, rich citrus and pine accents aggressively balanced with clear malt caramel flavor, and a deep, clean, satisfying finish.
We believe in the opportunity offered by gigabit fiber networks for Portland and for communities everywhere. We’re “opening the source code” so you can home brew a Gigabit IPA all your own. (It’s fiber-to-the-home, right?) Sam Adams • Mayor, City of Portland, Oregon
The launch of Portland's Gigabit IPA was a joint project of the geek, creative and beer communities to help demonstrate their unique character and support for the Google Fiber initiative.
This morning, Mayor Sam Adams, Cable and Franchise Management Director David Olson, Hopworks brewer Christian Ettinger and members of the beer, and tech communities met at the Portland International Airport to send a very special package to Lafayette, LA.
Here in Portland, Oregon, a collective of tech and beer geeks came together to show Google that we could seriously use Google's help and were serious about receiving it. Sheldon Renan of PDXFiber, Kerry Finsand of Taplister, and Christian Ettinger of Hopworks Urban Brewery were a few who ambitiously forged ahead with a vision for a new dry-hopped dank brew aptly named Gigabit IPA.
Mayor Sam Adams wants Google to beta test its ultra-fast fiber optics in metro Portland - and so do the city's high tech elite, who have organized a sleek campaign to wow the Internet giant.
What happens when you combine a passionate Portland, Oregon technology community, Google and Hopworks? You get Gigabit IPA. Described by Hopwork’s Brewer Ben Love, “this fresh & edgy IPA honors Portland’s new gigabit network project pioneering a connected future with Google fiber-to-home. Embrace the bandwidth with a massive NW hop aroma, with rich citrus and pine accents aggressively balanced with clear malt caramel flavor, and a deep, clean, satisfying finish. From Hopworks, the world’s first carbon-neutral artisnal brewery.”
http://uniquely-portland-oregon.com Hopworks Urban Brewery debuts the Gigabit IPA (India Pale Ale), hoping to woo Google into bringing their high-speed fiber...
No city in the U.S. is as ready as Portland to launch a citywide or scaled testbed for ultra high speed open platform broadband. Portland has the history, broad community support, willing businesses, committed local government, and cost-effective, year-round construction metrics. We are poised to take immediate steps to collaborate with Google’s visionary ultra high-speed broadband project on any agreeable scale from 50,000 to 500,000.
What would you do to woo that Google Fiber group and make them think kindly of you? Well, if you're Portland, Oregon, you brew a special beer. Duh. And then you call it Gigabit IPA.
Every stupid city in America is devising some dumb scheme to lure Google and its superfast fiber optic network there. Towns are renaming themselves Google, throwing untold subsidies at the project and so on. As for Portland, it’s bidding for the mega-network the only way it knows how: having one of the city’s top local brewers make Google its own beer, then shipping a keg or two to the company and seeing what happens. It’s a scheme, sure. But it’s also completely brilliant. Will it help lure Google to Stumptown? Who knows. But hey, more beer! Can’t go wrong there!
The Gigabit IPA crew included connectivity guy (I don't know what that means, either...) Sheldon Renan, left, label designer Bram Pitoyo, Hopworks owner/brewer Christian Ettinger and Kerry Finsand of Taplister.com who facilitated this whole thing.
This fresh & edgy IPA honors
Portland’s new gigabit network
project to pioneer a connected
future with Google fiber-to-the-home.
Embrace the bandwidth with
a massive NW hop aroma,
with rich citrus and pine accents
aggressively balanced with
clear malt caramel flavor,
and a deep, clean, satisfying finish.
From Hopworks, the world’s first
Christian Ettinger of Hopworks pouring the first pint of Gigabit IPA
carbon-neutral artisnal brewery.
Google-inspired IPA will be introduced to the public from 4pm to 6pm, Friday, April 2, 2010, at Portland’s Green Dragon, where the city’s geeks and creatives meet for “Beer and Blog’’ every week...
So last night (3/30) our friends at Taplister - namely CBO Kerry Finsand - announced a new beer named in honor of Google for the Portland market called Gigabit India Pale Ale and produced at Hopworks Urban Brewery.
Portlanders thirsting for faster broadband speeds have brewed up a new tool to lure Google's fiber project -- Gigabit IPA.
Initially christened "Gigabyte IPA," backers changed the name on the fly last night after responders to my tweets on the subject yesterday pointed out that Internet speeds are typically measured in bits, not bytes.
Google's bringing fiber to a special city—whichever city can prove its worth. Portland just threw down some heat by creating its own beer, "Gigabit IPA". It goes up for a tastetest tomorrow. Will it woo the Goog?
Hopworks Urban Brewery is Portlands first brew pub to offer all organic handcrafted beers, fresh local ingredients, eco-friendly and sustainable building, and a relaxed, casual atmosphere bringing communities together.
HUB is Portland’s first Eco Brewpub to offer all organic handcrafted beers, fresh local ingredients, and a sustainable building with a relaxed and casual atmosp
to offer all organic handcrafted beers, fresh local ingredients, and a sustainable building with a relaxed and casual atmosphere. Brewmaster Christian Ettinger has spent the past year and half constructing his “dream brewpub.“ HUB incorporates all aspects of sustainability. From composting to rain barrels, and from pervious pavers to hand dryers, we have made every effort to protect “our“ future with a thoughtful alternative. Hopworks has four distinct areas including a family friendly restaurant with play area, a vibrant bicycle bar, banquet mezzanine, and outdoor beer-garden. Our 20 barrel brewery produces 3000 barrels a year and provides our restaurant with ten different HUB organic beers on tap and two cask ales at all times. We have parking for seventy cars, eight motorcycles and up to fifty bikes. Our world-class beer, New York style pizza, and wonderful staff are some of the best you will find anywhere.
October 24, 2009 — Taplister joins Hopworks Urban Brewery's Chris Ettinger for a demonstration of their new bike bar. Full article found at Taplister.com.
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