INDIA PALE ALE

The world's first "light" IPA! Wachusett first released this beer at Wachusett Mountain, a ski hill in Massachusetts, in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Crowley family's ownership. Not just another session beer with a catchy name, the designation of "light" is not something taken, well...lightly by the FDA. The brewery needed to jump through several hoops, such as showing that the beer is in fact lower in calories than other beers, in order to secure approval to use the name.

In Mikkeller we have over the years done ​​many collaboration brews. However, the last one we did was a little unusual – we collaborated with the Swedish tattoo studio Crooked Moon.The two brothers Jacob and Jonas Pedersen that run Crooked Moon Tattoo in Helsingborg wanted to celebrate their tattoo studio’s first birthday with a big party, and what could be more natural than to do it with a beer in their own name?The two brothers have designed the labels for this beer. And therefore this beer comes with two different labels.

Their Threadless/Finch collaboration IPA is a balanced experience of both perceived hoppiness and true bitterness. It pours a darker amber color and finishes with a citrus flavor, and when combined, will require this to be the last IPA you ever drink! Well, maybe... they realize you will probably drink more, but the result of this recipe clearly evolves into a very balanced IPA. The grain bill on this big pale includes melanoidin and Victory malts. They hop it up before the boil starts with some Columbus first wort hopping, then add a bunch more for bittering.