Omnipollo’s Zodiak: the story behind the beer
Recent exhibitions held by Omnipollo’s artist Karl Grandin seems to have inspired them in exploring and releasing the story behind the beer Zodiak. The multitude of the Zodiak (Bottles, cans, blankets, and prints) really stands out amongst their wide range of styles, showing the importance of this beer, which accidentally became one of their most important flagships.
“We never set out to create a beer in a specific category, preferring instead to make the beer we want to drink and waiting to see how it is received, but Zodiak quickly became our house IPA.”
They first brewed Zodiak in 2014, focusing on hopheads. The goal was to have a beer that could satiate drinker's thirst for hops, at the same time that could develop better than a classic IPA with time. Experimentation started from Fatamorgana and in Zodiak they aimed to make a more approachable development on the malt part of the recipe.
Our house IPA in a can. A blend of grains, untouched post fermentation and aspiringly hopped with Simcoe, Citra, and Centennial.
An IPA that could taste nice over time, at first sight, could be as surreal as the artwork of the alternative zodiac conceived and designed by Karl Grandin. With twelve star signs of a parallel universe, Omnipollo’s Zodiac is something that lies at the other side of a black hole. “The chance that another civilization would come up with a parallel zodiac might seem unusual but in the scope of the universe, the possibilities are infinite.”. And the same could happen within the beer-verse.
Zodiak is a beer that travels, from outer space where it was conceived to being available in all 45 countries where you can get Omnipollo.
Zodiak beer is definitely a hit. Especially from the art perspective. From cans and bottles to blankets and prints. No doubt that this is one of their most strong and remarkable conceptualizations and artworks.
