For instance, standouts include their house hazy Art is Hard, a GABF silver medal winner in 2021 and SD Beer News Gold Medal Winner in 2022. In fact, founder Kelsey McNair started the brewery back in 2016 after his Hop-Fu! American IPA became the single most award-winning homebrew recipe in history.ĭamn, don’t you just hate folks who are good at everything!Īccordingly, North Park has risen to prominence on a foggy wave. We named them one of our “10 Best Breweries to Watch in 2021” after learning about this San Diego-based beaut from our friends at Humble Sea (purveyors of pervasive foggy IPAs themselves).īut IPAs have always been at the core of North Park, too. San Diego, CA Photography courtesy of | North Park Beer Co.īy far and away the brewery that received the most love across all our social platforms, North Park actually came onto our radar for its ultra decadent stouts. Read on for the top five breweries that you named most when it came to your favorite hazy IPAs. If we talk best TNEIPA, ‘Permanent Sunshine’ has got to be up there. LA Freshie), (Really Big Birds) and again some (e.g Jasper with Nelson). If we talk best DNEIPA, that’s tought but I’d put some up there (e.g. Many of which are pretty succinctly summed up in this most liked comment from “Best hazy IPA under 7% this year to me was ‘Sauvin Sunrise’ by and ‘Forced Optimism’ by coming in second place.
So we wanted to take the pulse on the pulp, coming up with a list of breweries you should keep your eyes on when it comes to producing galactic, out-of-this-world New England-style IPAs.īut before we get to our expert picks…we put out a question throughout all of our social platforms (Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook) asking: “What is the best hazy IPA you’ve drunk this year and why?”Īcross all platforms we received over 200 responses.Īnd after culminating and sifting through the data we found a few overwhelming trends. But especially in the beer world, we’ve seen the rise of cold IPAs, the bubble bursting on seltzers…eh, maybe not, and non-alcoholic beer gaining ground. As we all know, a lot can happen in three short years-(hello, pandemic).
In 2019, we wrote a piece called “You Should be Drinking Hazy IPAs from These 5 Breweries,” where we took a peek at some of the lesser-known breweries crafting excellent hazies. In the second piece, we’ll tap into the advice of an expert in the industry to see which breweries might be flying under the radar. This article will be part one of a two-part series. Which breweries do you love the most for tantalizing our taste buds with uber juiciness? Which breweries do you think are nailing these cloudy, opaque, foggy, murky, blurry, misty, turbid beers you can hardly see through? 4th, 2022), we wanted to know the breweries you-our readers and fans-think make the haziest IPAs. With a style that’s here to stay (and with National IPA Day coming up on Aug.
Everyone from the originators of the style such as Tree House, Trillium, and The Alchemist in the Northeast to Monkish and North Park in the West and all breweries in between have jumped on board the turbid train.Įven bigger breweries like Sierra Nevada, Rogue, Bell’s, Firestone Walker, etc., have come out with their own super easily accessible versions of the style that you can find at a store near you.Īnd people continue to innovate, creating new ingredients that are making hazy beers even juicier. We’re not writing anything here that is going to shock you. Followed up closely by “IPA – Imperial / Double New England” in the fifth spot with just under 2.9 million. Last year the style “IPA – New England” on the Untappd app ranked second highest with the most number of check-ins with over 6.1 million. We think it’s fair to say that the haze craze still has us in a daze.
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