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Dear Coilers, in this Brew! post I will present you a brewery from my dearest City of Zagreb, Croatia, the best brewery in EU. In Coil’s taproom I will review their IPA

The Garden Brewery Voted Best Brewery in the EU by Beer52

After more than 400,000 ratings and votes from over 50,000 beer fans Zagreb-based The Garden Brewery has been voted the best brewery in the EU by Beer52 in their first ever awards. Beer 52 was founded in 2013 and is the world’s most popular beer club with over 50,000 UK people subscribing to get a box of craft beers delivered to their door every month.

10 different categories were awarded, with The Garden Brewery taking the top overall prize out of more than 9500 European breweries thanks to it’s consistency, quality, ongoing innovation in creating more than 77 different beer styles and great export success (UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Slovakia….). All done in just 3 years since opening in 2016 with beers including the award-winning Vanilla & Chocolate Porter, a Sour program, Experimental beers including Milkshake IPAs and innovative low alcohol IPAs. Other award winners include Gipsy Hill, Northern Monk, Siren, Crate, Five Points and Big Smoke.

The Garden Brewery was founded in 2016 to bring incredible craft beer to the music festivals blossoming on Croatia’s shimmering Adriatic Coast, their beers are brewed for the experiences that bring us together.

From summer thirst-quenchers and fruit sours, to their experimental range, their beers are brewed with creativity, innovation and a passion for experimentation.

Whether it’s discovering a new beer style, exploring Croatia’s landscapes and feeling the sea breeze on the coast, or visiting their festival site in Tisno over the summertime, The Garden Brewery celebrates beer as a refreshingly simple way of connecting, in a sometimes disconnected world.

INDIA PALE ALE or IPA, three letters which became a synonym for craft beer. Some people love it, some find it too “strong and bitter” but there is no beer geek who hasn’t tasted at least a coupe of dozen from this style. Hops are the heart of a beer and India Pale Ale is all about hops. Hops in it are strong, even very aggressive and with bitterness they give all kind of flavour notes. Deep earthy, woody and piney or fruity, citrusy, floral or grassy, you name it, hops have it. It is bitter and its full of flavour, what else can you want in a brew?

With the growth of the craft beer movement many variations of IPA were made and it the field, together with Pale Ale, on which you can see the most experimentation in brewing.

India Pale Ale by The Garden Brewery

Hoppy, strong and bursting with flavour

Hops: Simcoe, Cascade, Azacca, Mandarina Bavaria, Zythos

Malts: Maris Otter, Caramalt, Munich, Torrefied Wheat

Yeast: Neipa

STYLE: American IPA

ALC VOL: 6%

BITTERNESS: 55 IBU

Pours golden yellow In colour with medium white airy head which stays longer than expected.

Nose: hops, very hoppy, fruity, strong grapefruit, pine, very fresh. Freshly baked white bread in the back

First sip: surprisingly light, very hoppy but not too bitter. Bitterness is way suppressed than what I would expect. Crisp, fresh, grapefruit settled with zests, orange, apricot. Pleasant malts round it all well.

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