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Ashtown Blackberry IPA

Ashtown Brewing Company
Longview, Washington
Beer style: Flavored - Fruit
Ref: ratebeer.com Apr2024

Common descriptors are
This beer starts as a great big IPA with lots of everything (two-row, wheat, Vienna and crystal malts and Chinoook, Cascade and 7C’s hops). Then the brewer adds Northwest blackberries to the fermenter. Blackberries are chock full of seeds that impart a unique bitterness to the brew. The tannins of the seeds layer nicely with the big hop load, while the berries’ sugar ferments out nearly completely, leaving only a trace of berry flavor behind. Instead, it’s Northwest IPA awesomeness.