Gage Roads Sleeping Giant IPA – RETIRED

There are IPAs aplenty being brewed across Australia these days but few that look to the UK rather than the US for inspiration. The Sleeping Giant goes back to the style's roots, resulting in a beer with a slow-building but big and broad, earthy bitterness. It opens with distinctly earthy and faintly floral hop aromas and offers up orange marmalade hop flavours that sit alongside nutty, burnt caramel and woody malts to offer IPA lovers an alternative from the punchy US-inspired hop bombs.