Range Brewing DIPA V16 (Cloudwater Collab)

Brewery: Range BrewingOrigin: AustraliaStyle: IPA - Imperial / DoubleABV: 8.0% Collaboration with Cloudwater Brew Co. For those who aren't familiar, Cloudwater really pushed the envelope of what a Double IPA could be in the early days. They were early adopters of the haze craze and really drove it to popularity oversea

Description

IPA – Imperial / Double New England / Hazy – Can 440ml – 8.0%

Collaboration with Range Brewing

We are grateful to have worked hand-in-hand this time around with our friends at Range Brewing in Brisbane Australia, who have worked in bold and adventurous ways to elevate the Australian brewing scene. We’ve boldly pushed the boundaries of contemporary liquid hop offerings in this brew. While liquid hops have traditionally played a supporting role in our most innovative beers, evolving their impact as technology and real-world feedback shape their usage, this time we wanted them to take centre stage in the brewing process.
Our aim was to maximise the potential of these full-flavour liquid hop extracts, producing an abundance of aroma and a profound hop resin character. The hop line-up starts with Citra Incognito from Barth Haas, followed by Nelson and Motueka SubZero HopKief from Freestyle for biotransformation. It then progresses to Galaxy and Citra Spectrum before finishing off with Nelson and Motueka Amplifire green hops oil from Clayton Hops, resulting in a layered complexity that rivals the finest dry-hop offerings available.
The outcome is a huge New Zealand-led bouquet of grape, lime, and gooseberry, complemented by lingering citrus and peach flavours on a dense resinous body that will have you savouring the intense, all-encompassing hop experience.

Cloudwater’s V-series DIPAs are a thing of legend here at Range. When owners Matt and Gerard were living in London and starting to slowly plant the seed in their minds for our brewery, it was these beers from a small brewery (at the time) from Manchester making hazy, juicy, IPAs that lit the flame. The boys used to dri