Calutron Girl - Mango
Able Baker Brewing Co.

This fruited Hefeweizen was brewed with some traditional approaches (Munich malt, lots of wheat, and Weihenstephan yeast) and some non-traditional ones (Mangoes). This malt bill, combined with one of the world’s most perfect yeast strains, brings out the classic notes of clove and banana that you expect, while mangoes provide the fruitiness and mild tartness that you don't. The Mango addition makes this wheat beer standout and the name celebrates the exceptional……the Calutron Girls. The Calutron Girls were a group of women who, due to labor shortages during WW2, were recruited to work at the top-secret Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN. These women were tasked with monitoring and adjusting the dials and meters on a mass spectrometer that produced the enriched uranium used in the first Atomic bomb. They did all this with an extremely high level of efficiency, with ZERO knowledge of their true job function or what the dials they were monitoring and adjusting controlled. A manager at the Oak Ridge facility reportedly would tell new Calutron girls, “We can train you how to do what is needed, but cannot tell you what you are doing. I can only tell you that if our enemies beat us to it, God have mercy on us!” This beer is dedicated to the many unsung and under-appreciated contributions made by so many women during the war effort.