Garage Project

Why it matters

A leading exponent of Southern Hemisphere hop character, which differs from American hops in ways that matter to how modern beer tastes.

Details

Reference beers

• Garage Project Hazy Daze5.8–6% ABV

  A New Zealand hazy IPA built on Southern Hemisphere hops, and a demonstration that the style is a technique rather than an American monopoly.

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Styles it is associated with

• New England IPA — Hazy, soft and intensely aromatic: tropical and stone fruit hop character with deliberately low bitterness and a full, juicy body.
• American IPA — The defining modern craft beer: intense citrus, tropical and resinous hop aroma over a lean malt base, finishing firmly bitter.

Traditions

• American craft brewing — The post-1980 American movement built on intense hop character, reinterpretation of European styles, and rapid categorical change.