Jupiter's IO
JT Walker's Restaurant & Sports Bar

We brewed this beer for Jupiter’s Pizzeria and Billiards in downtown Champaign. It is a citrusy wheat beer made with Belgian yeast and dry-hopped at the end of the brewing process to give it a slight hop punch. This beer is intentionally made to have a lower alcohol content, so that it can be enjoyed as a session beer on warm summer days. IO (pronounced ee-oh) is the fifth of Jupiter’s moons and its’ third largest. It was named by Galilieo who first discovered it in 1610, and gets it great colors from its volcanic activity. In Roman mythology, IO was a maiden who was so fair and good that all who knew her loved her, and said that there was no one like her in the whole world. Jupiter the great king of earth and sky became enthralled with her and changed her into a white cow to hide her from his wife Juno. It did not work though as Juno begged him for the cow and forced her to stay in that form for the rest of her life.