Half Acre Tend Winter India Pale Ale

 Half Acre Tend Winter India Pale Ale.

6.8 % ABV. Half Acre Beer Company, Chicago, Illinois.

Largely clear, rusty toned, slim white head.

In the nose: malty and moderately hopped.

In the mouth: a little spice up front, with just a dose of hop bitterness gliding across the palate and slipping down the throat. Caramel-y malt flavors. Rich and delicious. Toasty delights abound. A delightful winter IPA. 

Tend Winter IPA. Seasonal beers, more than most, are big for beer makers to fiddle with the associations living in the recesses of your brain. In Tend, we’ve looked at the cycling, Gregorian hold-down that is Midwestern cold. Brewing beer for the cold, we think hearty, chewy beer. Give us color, increased density and heft to live with the sunken temps, but hopefully beers brewed in rhythm with the season push on associations. In Tend, a range of specialty malts tilt us into a Caramel, baked & toasted bread landscape ~ chord wood, simmering soups, wind-licked skin. Some of our favorite hops, Mosaic and Simcoe, bake-in the notes of pine and orange, berry marmalade ~ Norway Spruce, dense outdoor soundscapes only heavy snow can provide and fractalized horizons sliced-up by naked trees. Weighty Winter IPA brewed for wood smoke and fire to lift your mind out over the dim, long cold.