Ballistic & Deep Creek Hybrid IPA

Ballistic Beer Co Salisbury

Published September 19, 2019

If we want to know what to expect from this beer, where should we look? It’s called a Hybrid IPA, with “the grit and bitterness of a West Coast IPA” and an "East Coast style dry-hopping schedule”. Well, if we look halfway between West Coast USA and East Coast USA, you’re landed smack bang in the middle of America. Nebraska, perhaps? Or Iowa, or the Dakotas? Nowhere particularly renowned for their IPAs, anyway.

Or, since this is a collaboration between Brisbane’s Ballistic Beer and Deep Creek Brewing just out of Auckland, maybe we should look halfway between them… and be left floundering somewhere in the Tasman Sea. Equally unhelpful.

This is a beer that has to speak for itself - and it speaks loud and clear. A full head gives off wafts of tropical fruit, and it presents in the mouth with sweet, sticky pineapple… but then the beer hits you with a dry and earthy whack of bitterness, like you’ve been kicked in the teeth by the mule displayed on the label of the can (whimsically carrying two kegs - one marked W, one marked E).

Doesn’t taste like Nebraska or seawater. Does show the skill of Ballistic and Deep Creek.

Mick Wust

Style
IPA
ABV
6.4%
Bitterness
60 IBU
Name
Ballistic Beer Co Salisbury
Address

53 McCarthy Road
Salisbury
QLD 4107

Open Hours

Thursday: 4pm to 7pm
Friday: 3.30pm to 10pm
Saturday: 1pm to 10pm
Sunday: 1pm to 7pm