Simcoe, Amarillo and Centennial were the working vocabulary of the American IPA for the better part of two decades, and Cameron's Brewing Company has gone back to all three at once. Resin Rodeo is a West Coast IPA at 6.8 percent ABV, out alongside a hazy sibling as the Oakville brewery's second new LCBO listing this week.
The brewery calls it big, brash and unapologetically hoppy, with pine, bright citrus and sticky hop character over a firm, bitter backbone.
That trio is a specific choice rather than a generic one. Centennial supplies grapefruit and lemon and is often described as a more assertive Cascade; Amarillo brings orange and a floral edge; Simcoe is the one carrying pine and dank resin, and it is the reason a bill like this reads as sticky rather than merely citrusy. None of the three belong to the newer generation of juice-forward tropical hops that hazy IPAs are built on, which is rather the point - this is the flavor set the style had before soft became the default, and the beer is named for the exact quality most modern IPAs are engineered to sand off.
Cameron's carries that through on the outside as well. The can is a two-color illustration of a cowboy riding a giant hop cone like a bronco across a desert of cacti and mesas, the name lettered in rope. The brewery's tagline runs "when the hops buck wild, only the brave hold on," which is the same idea in fewer words.
Resin Rodeo is available now in 473 mL cans at the brewery, online with free doorstep delivery, and at LCBO locations across Ontario.
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