
(Courtesy Tröegs Independent Brewing)
With Memorial Day now well behind us, summer has arrived! And American craft brewers are addressing the season with a full roster of new offerings you’re definitely gonna want to have around.
Nimble Drinking (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 andbrewmaster 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.”

(Courtesy Sierra Nevada Brewing)
A Little More Cosmic (Chico, CA) – Sierra Nevada Brewing has a new addition to the brewery’s innovation streams dubbed the ‘Limited Hazy Series that is a little more ‘cosmic’ than its three predecessors. Inspired by the prominent use of space-themed hops including Comet, Strata, and Helios, Sierra Nevada Cosmic Litle Thing is an 8% ABV Hazy IPA that shoots for the stars and delivers.
“As innovation brewers we’re always exploring different hop flavor combinations and looking for new ways to excite engaged beer fans, even when we’re working within existing beer styles,” says James Conery, Innovation Brewmaster at Sierra Nevada. “The Hazy IPA style is particularly exciting for craft beer fans right now, and it’s also exciting for us because there’s room for our creativity and exploration mindset to thrive. That comes through in the new beers we’re crafting, and Cosmic Little Thing is a great example of that.”

(Courtesy 10 Barrel Brewing)
Dramatic (Bend, OR) – 10 Barrel Brewing has a new addition to its to its already stacked HopBurst Series of IPAs that you’ll want to chase down. Bursting with huge citrus and pine hop flavors, 10 Barrel Juicy Drama is a massive 9.6% ABV Imperial IPA with Yuzu zest added at the fermentation stage to deliver a surprisingly easy-drinking and low-maintenance beer.
10 Barrel’s latest HopBurst release is available now anywhere 10 Barrel beers are sold, as well as in the new HopBurst Variety Pack featuring all four series IPAs—Juicy Drama, Apocalypse, All Ways Down, and Cloud Mentality
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