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Core Range Classics: Hopsmith

Core Range Classics: Hopsmith

The holy trinity of Amarillo, Simcoe and Centennial hops forms the heart of Hopsmith, a West Coast-style India Pale Ale that delivers you from boring beer with its citrus, pine and fruit notes, backed by an earthy, bitter finish that makes the heavens sing.

When we founded Akasha, our launch beer was a pale ale. But given Dave’s reputation for creating legendary IPAs in his former incarnation as a head brewer elsewhere, we knew that an Akasha-branded IPA would be our trial-by-fire as an independent outfit.

After all, before earning his place at the big table, Dave had long toiled at the crucibles of home-brewing, and made numerous pilgrimages to the US of A to learn the dark arts of that country’s celebrated West Coast-style flavours.

So it was with a genuine sense of anticipation and excitement that the Hopsmith was first wrought, and brought forth from the flames of creation. A distillation of all we’ve learned, it’s an expertly brewed beer by and for lovers of the craft, no matter your level of experience.

It’s a beer for all seasons. A summer bbq beer, a winter campfire beer. An anywhere you like it kind of beer. It’s our kind of beer.

Triple dry-hopped and beautifully refreshing with a distinctive flavour punch from the divine interplay of Amarillo, Simcoe, and Centennial hops and artfully balanced malt, if Vulcan himself were to pour himself a cold brew after a hot day smithing at the forges of heaven, it would be a Hopsmith.

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