Green Gully Brewing create their Island Beer lineup on farmland on Phillip Island, their fondness for traditional European styles often leading to the release of beers such as saison and grisette, or old-new world hybrids. This hazy IPA is tagged a "Farmhouse Hazy IPA" on their website, yet unlike some of their modern hopping regimes-meets-Belgian yeast concoctions, this is centred around the qualities of the malt and hops.
The former are responsible for a colour that's deeper than the vast majority of hazies: the deep copper of a traditional American pale ale but hazy, and has some of the biscuit / caramel flavours that formed the backbone of such beers too. This not only means there's a fullness to the body of the 6.6 percenter but also enhances the candied nature of the hops. Talus, El Dorado and Mosaic are the US trio awaiting drinkers, bringing sweet orange citrus and berries / blackcurrant up front and a mild pine-meets-spice bitterness in their wake.
James Smith
Published September 15, 2024 2024-09-15 00:00:00
