This week I try to cover all four directions with just two brews - a collaboration from Perrin and Cigar City and a special release from Lagunitas.
Up first, the collab.
Cigar City out of Tampa, Florida just recently expanded to the Midwest market, adding Chicago and Michigan to their distribution list. And, since they’ve arrived up north, Perrin Brewing, from Comstock Park, Michigan (right outside of Grand Rapids), invited the brewers of Cigar City to come make a beer with them.
North South is that beer. It’s an IPA made with Denali, Enigma, Galaxy and Citra Cryo hops that “takes all the aroma and hop flavor of an NE-IPA with less haze to create a more stable full hop flavored beer.