AK [Hollow Victory] Is Part Five, and the Series Has Its Own Merch

The fifth chapter of Adroit Theory's time traveling assassin series, built on the same pillowy base as the previous four and pushed toward mango and passionfruit. The story picks up exactly where Part 4 left it.

Style: Hazy Triple IPA
Release Date: 2026-09-24
ABV: N/A
Adroit Theory Brewing Company (Purcellville, VA)

Adroit Theory has been telling a story about a time traveling assassin across a run of hazy IPAs, and this week it reaches Part 5. The brewery says Hollow Victory picks up where Part 4 ended, still committed to what it describes, in capital letters, as causing maximum death and destruction.

The series is more formalized than a run of similar names. The brewery's webstore carries a dedicated AK Series collection, with a separate shirt and poster for each of the five parts, so the artwork has been commissioned chapter by chapter alongside the beer.

Against that continuity, the beer itself is built to stay recognizable. Adroit Theory says Hollow Victory keeps the same pillowy, semi-sweet body as the prior iterations, with the changes happening in the hop profile rather than the base. This one goes tropical and citrus forward, and the brewery describes intense, juicy notes of mango and passionfruit with a hint of pine sitting behind them, plus a subtle spicy note. Bitterness stays minimal, which the brewery notes is standard for the line.

The hops are Citra, Galaxy and Zappa, double dry-hopped. Galaxy is the Australian variety that built its reputation on passionfruit intensity, and it accounts for most of what the brewery is promising up front. The spice comes from Zappa, a hop bred from the wild North American neomexicanus species, which brings a savory and herbal character unlike the fruit-forward varieties it is sharing a tank with. In a triple IPA, where sweetness and alcohol both run high, that kind of contrast is doing structural work rather than decoration.

AK [Hollow Victory] is available now in Purcellville in pours and cans, with four cases packaged.

Editor’s Take

Five entries in, the AK series has quietly cleared the bar that separates a recurring beer name from an actual serial. There are five shirts and five posters on the brewery's webstore, one per part, which means somebody has commissioned art for a time traveling assassin five separate times and expects you to want the set. That is a commitment to a bit, and I mean that as praise.

What makes it work is that the beer underneath holds still. Adroit Theory keeps the pillowy, semi-sweet body constant across the parts and moves the hops, so Hollow Victory is recognizably the same character in a new scene rather than an unrelated triple IPA wearing the branding. Galaxy takes over the tropical lead this time, with Zappa's odd herbal streak playing the hint of menace in the background. Comic books have been running this exact format for eighty years. It turns out it ports to beer just fine.

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