New Beer Alert: 4 India Pale Ales That Will Not Disappoint

American Craft Beer|June 17th, 2025|

(Courtesy Tröegs Independent Brewing)

Summer is ON and American craft brewers are celebrating its arrival with an uber-interesting roster of beers, all of them IPAs this time around.

Time To Get Nimble (Hershey, PA) – Tröegs Independent Brewing has returned one of its most anticipated once-a-year releases (second only to its winter holiday Mad Elf Ale). A big beer that goes down easy, Tröegs Nimble Giant is a rich and deep orange 9% ABV Double IPA brimming with grapefruit, pineapple and honeysuckle notes that are offset by a sturdy backbone of pilsner and Vienna malts.

Nimble Giant came up through the brewery’s small-batch Scratch Series, starting with an experiment with Mosaic hops. After about half a dozen test batches, the Tröegs brewing team landed on a hop combination everyone loved – Mosaic, Simcoe and Azacca – and never looked back.

“We loved our earliest trials with Mosaic,” says Tröegs co-founding brother and brewmaster John Trogner. “When we started dry-hopping with Mosaic and Simcoe
together, we knew we were onto something. It’s big, bold, and has a classic West-Coast bitterness.”

Bigger, Hazier, Juicier (Chico, CA) – Sierra Nevada Brewing has relaunched a classic that was first introduced in 2021, this time with a bigger, hazier and juicier profile. Crafted with a smart mix of Citra, Mosaic and El Dorado hops Sierra Nevada’s re-envisioned Big Little Thing IPA is a 9.5% ABV Hazy India Pale Ale that builds upon everything that was great about original, amps up the octane and softens the mouthfeel.

“We experimented with several Hazy Imperial IPA recipes, but when I tried this one, I was truly impressed,” said Brian Grossman, Chief Brewer and second-generation owner of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. “It’s packed with flavor and has a smooth, pillowy texture at 9.5% ABV, without being overly sweet. It’s a great option for Hazy IPA lovers looking to take their experience to a different level.”

Brewed In The USA (Columbus, OH) – – BrewDog USA, the US arm of the Scotland-headquartered global craft brewer, has a new variety pack that includes BrewDog’s fan-favorite classics Hazy Jane and Wingman, as well these two uber-interesting exclusives, both of the IPAs.

A tribute to the brewery’s go-to Chinook hop, BrewDog American IPA is a smooth and crushable 6.3% ABV India Pale Ale with vibrant pine and citrus notes that give way to a surprisingly smooth finish.

And BrewDog Hop Fiction is a bold yet refreshing 5% ABV Session IPA, with juicy tropical flavors of mango and guava that are complemented by stone fruit complexity. This Brew Box Variety Pack exclusive, which is dry-hopped with the innovative Krush hop, is ideal for those who want big flavor without the heavy hit.

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