We’re rounding out 2020 with a fun new collaboration with our friends at Level Beer.
Not So Sensible Soccer is a big, hopped up, dry, West Coast Double IPA. We used an Away Days favorite, Mosaic, and Level’s choice pick, Strata, with a charge of Amarillo for good measure. This trio brought notes of apricot, Sauvignon blanc, ripe pineapple, and ruby red grapefruit. Fermented to a dry, crisp finish with our house English yeast. Still balanced, not over board, just Not So Sensible.
Style: West Coast IPA / ABV: 8.0% / IBU: 70 / SRM: 3
History:
A West Coast IPA is the biggest, fruitiest, piniest, citrusy..er..est type of IPA. It's a beer that bowls you over with a volcano of grapefruit, tropical fruits, and pine. It's all about hops, hops and hops, with the malt having a say in a grainy, sweet contrast to all this fruit.
It was in the Pacific Northwest where craft's flagship beer evolved when innovative home brewers used locally-grown hops to make beer. These brew-kettle trailblazers also discovered that hops grown in the region (where most of US hops are grown) were especially epic in an IPA. The world took note... craft beer wins.
You can find Not So Sensible Soccer Double IPA at the following retail locations:
Away Days Brewing taproom, Level Beer taproom, Coffee Beer, Koken Market, Market of Choice - Belmont, West Linn and Cedar Mill, Bottleworks Seattle