PEMBERTON BREWING CO. - Upside Of Down Brut Ipa

Available at the brewery, and local liquor stores and restaurants

Brut IPAs are a great new style of IPA — they’re light and dry, crystal clear with higher carbonation and lower alcohol, so they’re very crisp and refreshing and a little more crushable [craft beer slang for — easygoing, super-drinkable!] than other styles of IPA. To increase the beautiful hop presence in this beer, we tone down all the other aspects of a more traditional IPA — we strip away the malt and any haze, as well as pretty much all the residual sugar, and this lets the hops stand out and really pop! We use Citra and El Dorado hop varieties, which give great citrus and tropical notes, with tons in the dry hop for big hop character without being too aggressive.

It’s a great new beer style to try, especially when you’re looking for something hop-forward that’s also light and thirst-quenching. Vital stats: 5.8% alc./vol., 28 ibu.

Geoff Macdonald - Owner and Brewer | Pemberton Brewing Co., 604-894-2337, pembertonbrewing.ca