Black Spruce named this one Collective Effervescence. It is, at minimum, an accurate description of what happens when you open the can.
Underneath the name it's a West Coast IPA, pale, bright, the sturdy bitterness the style is supposed to have. The interesting part is what they built it with: Abstrax Dolcita hop terpenes and something called Euphorics Pineapple Paradise. I did not know what a hop terpene was before this email arrived. I am not going to pretend I've since become an expert. What I can tell you is that these are newer extracts brewers use to push flavor without leaning on a wall of hops to get there, and somebody at Black Spruce is clearly paying closer attention to this than I am.
Fairbanks doesn't get much credit as a place doing interesting things with IPAs. That's probably an oversight, not a fact.
It lands Friday, July 17th, on tap alongside two other new releases from the same brewery.
Worth a taste, quietly.