Chinook, Columbus, Simcoe and US Cascade certainly feel like a fitting way to build a classic West Coast IPA and that’s what Fox Friday’s core range beer is. Indeed, if aliens were to land tomorrow, assuming you were the person tasked with establishing first contact, you could certainly do worse than handing them this beer and telling them this is what a West Coast IPA should taste like.
Pouring clear orange, the beer’s as piney and resinous as they come, while packing in grapefruit rind, further fresh orange juice and dried mango. It’s also dry, quite lean and is brought together by a big and building bitterness so that you know that if those aliens don’t come in peace, at least you’ve done your best to show them a classic.
