That One Fad Diet
Mirror Twin Brewing

While the IPA has its own natural propensity for fruitiness and spice, the brewers at Mirror Twin take these tendencies to heart and devise a beer that just might be its own detox fad as well.

With a generous addition of grapefruit and cayenne, That One Fad Diet pours a rusty, hazy tone of browns and reds. Scant on foam formation or retention, the beer leads with the expected spicy twinge of red pepper and a sharper grapefruit lean than what’s standard for hops only. A medium toasted sweetness seems to sparkle on the tongue in the presence of peppery capsaicin.

The citrusy nature of hops come calling on the middle palate with the sharpness of white grapefruit, lemon and orange peel. Trending sharply grassy, stemmy and fruity, the pine resin bitterness carries the quintessential heat of cayenne along with a bitter splash of grapefruit juice for extra measure.

Medium bodied, toasty and redolent with bread crust, the taste of grapefruit peels exacerbate the dryness and acute bite of the peppers for a woodsy, spicy and tannic bite.