(The name is shorthand for “I Got Your Six,” meaning “I Got Your Back”-a phrase with deep significance for military veterans looking to support each other.) She’s also fully on board with the upcoming beer to support veterans-Alcona’s IGY6 Pale Ale. Ison says that brewery owner Sandy Arens gives him plenty of room to be creative.
That capacity allows a part-timer to plan a brew schedule for a surprisingly wide variety of beers on tap-from a mixed-fermentation bière de mars to doppelbock to bourbon-barrel stout and imperial IPA. In a rural area like that, a batch brewed on the brewery’s seven-barrel system tends to last a while-especially outside of high season. With a population of about 425 people on the shores of Lake Huron, Harrisville is one of the smallest towns in Michigan. Master Sergeant Shane Ison is an intelligence analyst at the Michigan Air National Guard in Alpena-that’s the “day job.” He’s also the brewer at Alcona Brew Haus in Harrisville, about 40 miles south of the base. There are many such beers, but there is probably only one brewed by an active-duty airman who also is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Those varieties need to be harvested and processed early, so that the hops can ship out in time to go into special beers to be released around Veterans Day, November 11. When Yakima Chief Hops plans its annual Veterans Blend-its varieties evaluated and voted on by brewers who are also military veterans-there is a certain parameter in mind.
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