Craft beer of the month – Magic Rock/Verdant What are the Odds DDH DIPA

When people start talking of a beer as “beer of the year” you take notice. When it’s a Magic Rock and you’re about to load them onto your site as an Outsider you jump for joy! Good luck or genius timing? You can decide. We’ve had both Magic Rock and Verdant on our site before but never together and this monster 500ml can is basically the best of both.

Verdant do nothing but delivery soupy, hoppy, smooth, low-bitter big beers and Magic Rock are well versed in creating hop-forward brews so what could go wrong? Nothing at all, in fact it’s easily our beer of the month. There’s all that smoothness and tons of hops we spoke about previously but it has a very devilish slightly bitter and treacle-like triple edge to it that sets it apart from other DIPAs. For such a thick beer, and one with so much ABV, it’s scarily easy to drink and 500ml certainly won’t over-face you. Is What are the Odds “Beer of the Year”? Well that’s for you to decide but the only way to know is to try one – so grab one before they go (we have a few left as we type) and make up your own mind.

Notable runners up this month come from the ever-excellent Brew by Numbers and the “back to basics” beautiful 55|09 DIPA. A completely different beast to Odds but a stunning and beautiful brew none the less.

Cheers