Chico is going to get colder with a new Cold IPA from Sierra Nevada.
I am kind of surprised thar they didn’t fly this under the Little Thing banner but maybe it fits their idea of the Torpedo brand closer.
Cold in the Sierras
Santa’s Pint Glass – Day 29
We are at Christmas Eve and Santa has to work and not kick back with a pint, but there is one last beer to be had, Stay Frosty from Reuben’s Brews.
“Stay Frosty IPA is the perfect beer for the tail end of Summer and the return of crisp, cool, fall air to the PNW. It’s clean and refreshing like a lager, but with the higher ABV and bold hoppiness of a classic West Coast IPA.
Instead of using traditional ale yeast, in this hybrid IPA we use lager yeast and ferment at cooler temperatures than normal IPAs to deliver a clean body that allows the hops to shine without any of the usual ale yeast aromas. The addition of flaked rice to the grain bill imparts additional clarity and crispness. Gobs of hops build an assertive bitterness, and we also dry hop at the tail end of fermentation to deliver even more hop boldness.”
Santa’s Pint Glass – Day 7
Time to fill a non-frosted glass with something seasonally appropriate, perhaps a Cold IPA?
Start a new ritual with this Cold IPA from Hopworks Urban Brewery.
Cold As Azacca
I think the boomlet of Cold IPA may melt away but here is another take on the sub-style from Glendale’s Brewyard Beer Co. Pro Tip – Find the Wayfinder originator of the style and try side by side.
Cold Kush
Last time that Wayfinder dropped some of their fine beer in L.A., I had their Relapse Cold IPA. And now I can explain what that means to them, it is a hybrid India Pale Lager / Malt Liquor. And now they have teamed with the fan favorite Great Notion on a variant of that variant, named Cold Kush. A hazy with Citra and Strata hops primarily with Galaxy and Cashmere backing up. This beer also has rice and flaked wheat too. And since L.A. also gets Great Notion on occasion, maybe this beer will show up on shelves.
Coo, coo, coo, Cool
I recently had Relapse IPA from Wayfinder that was named a cold IPA and now Fort Point has Cool, “Instead of scouring the world for the latest experimental hops, we got experimental with how we treated the yeast. Fermenting this IPA at a much cooler temperature than most sharpened the hop aroma while smoothing over the bitterness. The result is a crisp, clean IPA..”