What do you do when you spend half a decade working for a digital video compression company in the IPA sodden city of San Diego, you leave America's Finest City to open a brewery in the nucleus of the tech industry, and you have a penchant for manipulating data? You brew Always Blue Westcoast IPA, a hyper-dry India Pale Ale with a laser beam of hop aromas and a desolate landscape of malt character. Upon launch this IPA scores big with immense hop-derived notes of juicy papaya, sun-ripened pears, and lemon blossom; perfectly showcasing the complimentary shaft angle that Simcoe and Lemon Drop hops share as they stand tip to tip waiting for the beer to finish. More bitter than a predatory flautist and with sweetness that is harder to find than the floating island community of Arallon, we like to think of Always Blue as the Westcoast IPA version 2.0.
American-Style India Pale Ale
ABV:
6.60%
Fieldwork Brewing Co.
Berkeley, California