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Summer will soon be giving way to fall and American craft brewers are addressing the season with an intriguing roster of India Pale Ales you’re gonna want to have around.
Space Yourself (Seattle, WA) – Elysian Brewing offers a number of dependable IPAs, so many if fact that it’s easy to take them for granted. Elysian Space Dust IPA is a perfect example of a big and commanding 8.2% ABV India Pale Ale that worth sitting with from time to time. There’s a reason that year-rounds are year-rounds – they’re good all year round. And even better, it now comes in uber-gracious 16oz cans!
First brewed in 2012 as a one-off at the company’s innovation brewery, Elysian Fields, this popular IPA’s name originates from the brew day, where leftover Galaxy hop dust was spontaneously thrown into the brew, hence Space Dust.
Double Trouble (Boulder, CO) – Upslope Brewing has introduced a massive new year-round IPA that turns things up to 11 and comes in the increasingly popular 19.2 “stovepipe” cans. The 19.2-ounce can currently accounts for more than 92% of craft single sales at convenience stores across the nation, according to Circana data.
Brewed with the most expressive hops the brewery could get its we could hands on, and then doubling down on its octane, Upslope Double West Coast Style IPA is a 9% ABV India Pale Ale dripping with aromas of Douglas fir and ripe citrus fruit, with a firm bitterness and dry finish.
Darkness Done Right! (Calgary, Canada) – With more craft breweries than ever before, brewing serious non-alcoholic beer, ACB has expanded its coverage to include new NA beers that matter. And Big Drop Brewing, a UK headquartered non-alcoholic brewery that also contact brews its beers for the US at the Destihl Brewery in Illinois, matters.
Awarded a Bronze Medal in the Non-Alcohol Beer category at the 2023 World Beer Cup, Big Drop Galactic Extra Dark is a rich and chocolaty buzz-free Imperial Milk Stout that is as convincing as it is delicious.
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