New Glarus Brewing (2019)

I agree. I say let the fruit characteristics come from the hop and yeast combo if you want to achieve that profile.

IPAs with actual fruit seem to become either artificial tasting or too oddly bitter and acidic to me.

 

I’m still trying to figure out which fruit IPA you are talking about?

 

New Thumbprint Series shown in the updated calendar.
Break’O Day Juicy IPA

 

What @Freshlike1980 said. The calendar calls Break O'Day's style a "Fruited IPA." I do not (and have never really) like fruited IPAs. It very seldom works, and even when it does, I'll take an IPA where the fruit flavors come from hops over a fruited IPA every single time.

 

Am I excited about it? Not really.
Am I going to try it? Absolutely.

 

The crazy thing is new Glarus rarely does anything that doesn’t work. ESPECIALLY when it comes to fruit. They do fruit better than any brewery in the world in my humble opinion.

 

That's...a good point.

We'll see then.

 

Knowing Dan is pretty conservative with his brews, I'm assuming a well made IPA with something like grapefruit or some other citrus added. What would be cool would be for Dan to do a milkshake style IPA with orange, vanilla and lactose. Either way, will probably be a solid super drinkable beer as always from NG.

 

They should do one with cheeseburgers, french toast, fresh lychees, lactose, smoked passionfruit, white chocolate chips, peanut brittle, marble cake, and just a hint of bourbon BA habanero maple syrup to pull it all together.

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On a serious note I'm all about that brut IPA and if I'm going to love a fruit beer from any brewery it's going to be New Glarus. This plus that new Central Waters brut pilsner should make for some BRUTal summer drinking...

 

Ahh yes, reading is fundamental. I was talking with my NG rep not too long ago and remember him mentioning something about it but don't recall the fruit they were using.

 

A rumor on Madison Beer Twitter pointed in a something-less-than-100%-confident direction toward mango. But that is just speculation/hazy (ahem) recall.

 

While they call it a fruited IPA, based on the description from their website, I think it's going to be more in the mold of a hazy IPA (as @kylenabilcy alluded to in his post), using some fruit/fruit juice.

https://newglarusbrewing.com/beers/OurBeers/Beer/break-oday

 

The name and description definitely makes you think orange or some other kind of breakfast juice-y citrus.

 

Hmmm I don’t know if that’s how I read it. It says “juice-infused session IPA”. The hop blend looks nice, but aside from Citra and maybe Amarillo, they aren’t especially “juicy” and like what you’d typically find in current hazy IPAs.

 

Fair enough, but I still think that they're aiming to have some kind of hazy/juicy IPA. They even had to reference 'haze' in the description:
"Complex dry hop additions of Comet, Amarillo, Chinook, Bravo, Sterling and Citra hops bring the haze to our boisterous and bright Juicy IPA party that you hold in your hand."

 

Wrong, it's durian. Definitely durian.

 

I would call an IPA with fruit/fruit juice a fruited IPA. Whether or not it's hazy is irrelevant to whether it's a fruited IPA

 

DDH Wild Peach?

 

Too bad OG WIld Peach is unidentifiable. Would be great if Dan brought it back one day.

 

Certainly in America