Match of the Day is the latest IPA to be added to our tap list here at Away Days Brewing. We’re a European-inspired brewery and taproom in SE Portland, with a focus on lower ABV beers. That being said, we know where we live and we know what Portlander’s love. Match of the Day is a classic PNW IPA that will make any PDX beer-lover happy.
Style: West Coast IPA / ABV: 6.2% / IBU: 70
There is no more classic of a match up than Mosaic and Simcoe in a West Coast IPA. Hopped in the kettle and dry hopped with monolithic amounts of both all star hops. Fans can expect huge, dank aroma of ripe pineapple, piney hops, overripe peaches, and mango. The finish is dry and bitter, like an IPA should be. Enjoy this return to form, a clash of two titans, where everyone wins.
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.