We’re at beer #12 in the advent calendar — halfway to Christmas Eve. Today's selection is Deschutes’s Fresh Haze IPA. You guys know how I feel about IPAs. I will say that I can tolerate “juicy” IPAs more than other types, and that’s what this is. It’s got a lot of citrus flavor, but also a lot of hops. Mind you, I am a big fan of a lot of Deschutes’s beers — the Black Butte Porter is great, and the Obsidian Stout is even better, especially if you can find it on a nitro tap — but the Fresh Haze just isn’t my bag of sweet Valencia oranges. But it is winter, and I'm drinking something hazy, so as a music fan, I can take some solace, even if there's not a patch of snow on the ground at the moment.
Name: Fresh Haze IPA
Brewery: Deschutes Brewery
Location: Bend, OR
ABV: 6.5%
IBU: 45
Good for drinking if: You're listening to Simon & Garfunkel or The Bangles -- well, one particular song by each of them, anyway. Or maybe you're just watching Less Than Zero. Hell, I don't care.
Rating (out of five stars, by quarter star increments): 3.25
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