KVB Monthly Beer Box
The Summer IPA Box #2
Four breweries. Six IPAs. The last days of summer.
Start here. Mosaic, Galaxy, Motueka and Vic Secret — four hops doing serious work in a very light frame. Citrus, grapefruit, lemon and tropical fruit all present and correct at 3.4%. The one you open at 3pm on a Friday and don't feel bad about.
Named exactly right. A rich, full-bodied malt base gets behind an aromatic hop character full of spice, fruit and pine, Kentish Ernest and Goldings in the whirlpool, then double dry-hopped with Mosaic and Simcoe for good measure. From a small Rochester outfit quietly making some of the most interesting beer in North Kent.
SIBA South East Award winner, 2023. Wantsum have been brewing in the Wantsum Valley since 2010 and this is their flagship IPA. Mosaic and Citra do what they do best, citrus punch up front, tropical underneath with oats in the mash giving it a smooth, full body that most 4.5% IPAs can't match. Clean, bright, built for drinking outside.
Cold IPA is what happens when lager discipline meets IPA ambition. Fermented cold and lagered for two weeks for a clean, crisp finish that most IPAs can't touch. Moot have loaded it with UK, US and New Zealand hops: Nectaron brings peaches and nectarines, Cascade and Citra push citrus and grapefruit, Superdelic adds a hint of red berry right at the end. All the fruit character of a hazy, none of the murk.
Gadds' own description: plain, old fashioned, no-nonsense Kent-hopped IPA. That's exactly what it is. Dry, bitter, properly hopped with East Kent varieties grown a few miles from the brewery. The heritage anchor of the box — everything the county's hop-growing history tastes like in one can.
Save this one for last. Brewed to celebrate Moot's fifth birthday, High Five layers Superdelic, Mosaic and Strata for a slight grassy aroma on the nose, then a super soft body with a sweet, creamy finish that gives way to stone fruits, candy and citrus. A proper occasion beer. At 7.8% it earns the closer spot — and then some.
- Smesh — Time & Tide, 3.4%
- Sunday — Moot, 4%
- Hurricane — Wantsum, 4.5%
- Arcane — Moot, 4.5%
- Pedding Lane — Gadds', 6.5%
- High Five — Moot, 7.8%
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