Name: Dawn of A Dark Day XII: RESIST [Metal Label Edition]
Brand: Adroit Theory Brewing Company
Availability: InStock

One hundred cans is the entire run.

Adroit Theory Brewing Company released Dawn of A Dark Day XII: RESIST [Metal Label Edition] at its Purcellville taproom this afternoon. The brewery is clear about what it is: a variant of RESIST, the Hazy Triple IPA already in its lineup, rather than a new recipe. Two things change. The dry-hop rate is doubled from the standard version, and the can gets a label designed to look like metal.

The hop decision is the one that shows up in the glass. Dry hopping happens after fermentation, when the beer is no longer hot enough to pull bitterness out of the hop. The charge therefore contributes aroma and flavor almost exclusively. Doubling it does not make a beer harsher; it makes it louder. A 10 percent triple IPA carries a substantial hop load before anyone doubles anything, so the absolute quantity involved here is not small.

Adroit Theory is framing the release as a celebration of its COBRA series, the 12-part run of beers built around G.I. Joe and its arch-nemesis organization. That series came back this month after a three-year hiatus with REBEL, its fourth entry. The brewery has the fifth listed among its September pre-orders, built around the character Snake Eyes.

RESIST [Metal Label Edition] is pouring now and available in cans at the taproom, with 10 cases packaged.

Editor’s Take

Directly after the words doubling the Dry-Hop Rate from normal, Adroit Theory's release note contains the bracketed phrase you are welcome. It is one of the more honest pieces of beer copywriting to land this week. No paragraph about elevating the drinking experience, no line about pushing the envelope - just a brewery saying, in effect, we put twice as many hops in, you are going to enjoy that, do not mention it.

The good part is that the parenthesis is doing real work. Dry hops go in after fermentation, where they contribute aroma and flavor without dragging bitterness along with them, so doubling the charge on a beer that was already a triple IPA is a straightforwardly generous move rather than an aggressive one. A hundred cans of it exist, in a tin printed to look like sheet metal, at a brewery that has spent years naming beers after things that howl. There is not a great deal left to say to that except thank you.

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JollyPint independently prepares release articles using information published by breweries through newsletters, websites, and other official public communications. Brewery-supplied descriptions and tasting notes are reported as provided, while editorial context is added by JollyPint.

RESIST [Metal Label Edition] Doubles the Dry Hop for 100 Cans

Adroit Theory has taken RESIST, doubled the dry-hop charge, and printed the can to look like sheet metal. The run stops at 100 cans, released to mark the return of the brewery's COBRA series.

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