We brewed this first of all at Elusive, to celebrate Andy’s 50th birthday in the summer of 2023. Batch #2 was produced at Burning Sky in 2024. This year we’ve been excited to brew V3 here at our brewery, and see how it follows or diverges from its predecessors.

The beer is pale gold. Aroma is heady, sweet and fruit cocktail. It starts with more of a honeyed sweetness than the usual malt character than we get in our house IPAs, but then has also a drier finish. It has direction. The sweetness of the body pushes the hops through as pineapple, all tropical and luscious. The beer feels a touch less of the west coast than the Elusive and Burning Sky versions, a little more transatlantic in its manifestation. Less lean and elegant, a bit bigger and brasher. But a firm bitterness to end returns it towards the west coast wheelhouse, pithy grapefruit lifts it to a familiar finish

In 2007, Evin O'Riordain was sent to New York on business and what he tasted in the bars and pubs was, not only to change his life forever, but to prove a pivotal point in the UK beer scene's revival. He spent the next 2 years homebrewing and honing his skills, making big flavoured and challenging beers. In 2009, The Kernel Brewery was born and word slowly spread about this man making fantastic beers under a railway arch in South East London. A move to bigger premises saw them finally be able to meet demand and they are now named in the top 50 Breweries in the world by Rate Beer.

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