Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers

Why it matters

American craft brewing built its identity on ale, and treated lager as the thing it was reacting against. This brewery inverted that — everything it makes is bottom-fermented — and its India pale lager is the reference case for the format: the hop load of an IPA over a fermentation that adds nothing of its own, so the hops are the only thing there.

Details

Reference beers

• Jack’s Abby Hoponius Union6.7% ABV

  The reference India pale lager: an IPA hop load over a lager fermentation, from a brewery that makes nothing else.

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Styles it is associated with

• India pale lager — A lager hopped at IPA intensity: clean cold fermentation carrying bright American hop aroma and firm bitterness.
• Munich Helles — Bavaria’s everyday pale lager: soft, bready and malt-forward, with just enough hop to balance and nothing to distract.