Hazy Hills Hands a Session NEIPA to a Single Dry Hop

A New England IPA at 4.5 percent, with the tropical and citrus character coming from one hop doing all of it. Farmington Brewing names Trident as the dry hop and leaves it at that.

• Style: New England IPA
• Release Date: 2026-09-17
• ABV: 4.5%
• Farmington Brewing Company (Farmington, MI)

The hop bill on this one is short enough to say in a word.

Farmington Brewing Company has Hazy Hills NEIPA on tap at its Farmington, Michigan taproom, a session take on the New England IPA at 4.5 percent ABV. The brewery credits its tropical and citrus character to a generous dry hopping of Trident, and names no other hop.

That leaves a single variety responsible for everything a drinker is meant to notice. In a style where aroma is the main event and hop bills routinely run to four or five names, handing the job to one dry hop is a decision rather than a shortcut.

The strength is the other half of it. Most New England IPAs sit between 6 and 7 percent, where residual sweetness and body carry the hop character and soften the finish. At 4.5 percent there is meaningfully less of that to work with, and a dry hop has to supply fruit and aroma without a malt cushion behind it.

The brewery's tap list records the beer at 60 IBU, which reads higher than the style's reputation suggests. Calculated bitterness and perceived bitterness routinely part ways in hazy IPAs. A heavy late and dry hop load pushes the number up while contributing aroma rather than bite, so the figure is better read as a measure of how much hop went in than of how sharp the beer lands.

Hazy Hills is pouring now on Grand River Avenue.