LOVE SHACK

HAZY PASSIONFRUIT IPA

A year ago we traded BFF necklaces with our good friends at Eighty Eight Brewing and set our sights on a glorious collaboration.

Alas, 2020 had other plans…. But we weren’t going to let another year go by without celebrating our mutual love – for each other, and for tasty beer. Behold, our lovechild – Love Shack Hazy Passionfruit IPA!

The talented brew teams at Cabin and ‘88 built the recipe for Love Shack together, then each brewed their own version. While it’s the same recipe and same ingredients, each beer is slightly different.

We started with a wonderfully full-bodied and super soft malt bill, blended a passionfruit addition as big as a whale and then dry-hopped the living bejeebus out of it with all the Galaxy, Vic Secret, Cryo Mosaic and Cryo Sabro hops we could lay our hands on.

Think of Love Shack as tropical aromatherapy, with a citrus chaser, mixed with a delightfully tart little twist of passionfruit. Juicy? Yes. Tasty? HECK YES!

STYLE: Fruted NEIPA

FLAVOUR PROFILE: A pint of love

HOPS: Galaxy, Vic Secret, Mosaic, Sabro, Enigma

ABV: 6.8

IBU: 31

CHAPTER 2

BARREL-AGED BARLEY WINE

So closes our second chapter…

 For Chapter 2 we have lovingly barrel-aged our Now & Then Barley Wine in Pedro Ximenez sherry casks. This 11.9% beer is wildly complex, with all sorts of malt goodness going on. It has big notes of raisin, dried fruit and caramel with underlying notes of coconut, vanilla and oak. It is full-bodied and luscious and chewy and is tasting incredible right now, but like our Chapter 1 beers it will continue to age gracefully for years to come.

STYLE: Sherry Barrel-Aged Wee Heavy

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Big bold slow sipper

HOPS: Mosaic, HBC472

ABV: 11.9

IBU: 60

RADIO PLAY

PALE ALE

The Vertigo Mystery Radio series was developed by Vertigo Theatre in response to demand from audiences for great local content during the pandemic. Radio Play Pale Ale as made to help sell tickets to listen to the delightfully spooky THE HITCHHIKER by Camille Pavlenko and THE AMERICAN by Tara Beagan (with $10 from each sale going to Vertigo). Way to feeling good about yourself for supporting so many local businesses with one purchase. Each four-pack features four unique can designs.

STYLE: American Pale Ale

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Bright and balanced

HOPS: Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo

ABV: 5.2

IBU: 40

NOW & THEN

BARLEY WINE

Now and then, you want a beer that shines the light on complex and intense malt flavours. Now and then, you want a wintertime sipper that has a rich, chewy body and a gentle alcohol warmth that’ll see you through to spring. You may not want to drink barley wine every day but now and then – when the mercury dips, the dark night feels close and a slow-cooked meal is simmering on the stove - it’s just the ticket. Get it now, even if you won’t drink it until then. This beer will age beautifully and develop a more rounded body and port-like notes of dried fruit

STYLE: Barley Wine

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Chewy malt complexity

HOPS: Mosaic, HBC 472

ABV: 11.3%

IBU: 60

BY THE NUMBERS

WEST COAST IPA

When you brew a beer with Bale Breaker, you’d better bet the hops are going to shine! Surrounded by hop fields in the heart of Washington’s Yakima Valley, Bale Breaker is at ground zero for hop growing. They visited recently and brought two new experimental and very exciting hop varieties to the party, HBC692 and HBC630. We introduced these new beauties to some of our old friends –Amarillo, Comet, Citra, Simcoe and Mosaic – to create an IPA that is simply exploding with citrus, tropical fruit and stone fruit flavours and aromas – peach and tangerine especially. This beer is an absolute beauty. One sniff and you’ll be a fan for life.

STYLE: West Coast IPA

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Dry, citrus hop bomb

HOPS: HBC630, HBC 692, Comet, Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo, Simcoe

ABV: 7.1%

IBU: 60

MISTY FREQUENCY

NEW ENGLAND IPA

Remember when you heard that song for the first time? The one that moved you in a way you never new music could? Haze fiends prepare yourself. We’ve created a luscious new juice-bomb that is music to your mouth. A stack of Amarillo, El Dorado and Mosaic hops create a wall of aroma that assaults your senses in the right ways. Wheat and oats lend a pillowy mouthfeel that’s as easy as a breeze in springtime. High notes and undertones work in harmony to create a beer that is perfectly melodic, oh-so balanced and remarkably crushable. Relax, and open up your senses. Let Misty Frequency move you.

STYLE: New England IPA

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Big ol’ juice bomb

ABV: 7%

IBU: 60

HOPS: Amarillo, El Dorado, Mosaic

STATIC EFFECT

NEW ENGLAND IPA

There is nothing wrong with your tastebuds. Do not attempt to adjust your palate. We are controlling the wave after wave of flavour and aroma that is now mesmerizing your senses like a wave of white noise. A treasure trove of Sabro, Amarillo and Mosaic hops bring notes of tangerine, mango, cream, berry fruit and light wood. Wheat and oats lend a soft, pillowy mouthfeel that lingers on your tongue like a slowly melting orange creamsicle. Tune out, drop in and let your senses float to their outer limits. Still can’t decipher all those flavours? Please rewind and begin again.

STYLE: New England IPA

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Tropical and berry fruit

ABV: 7%

IBU: 40

HOPS: Sabro, Bru-1, Mosaic, Amarillo

FIRST LIGHT

SESSION IPA

First Light: when the dawn awakens, when the coffee goes on and when the day is filled with endless possibilities. It’s when we end our nights, start our days and dream big dreams. This beer was brewed on International Women’s Day by the women who help make Cabin great, as part of the Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day. Using the Pink Boots hop blend, they carefully crafted a delicate yet assertive west coast-style session IPA. It is light enough to be sessionable, yet loaded with amazing floral, spicy and citrus aromas and a lingering nutty malt backbone.

STYLE: Session IPA

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Light and hoppy

ABV: 4.5%

IBU: 40

HOPS: Mosaic, Simcoe, Pink Boots Blend