Obey the Rules West Coast IPA

 Obey the Rules West Coast IPA is a collab between Beer. Diversity and People’s Pint Brewing Company out of Toronto. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this 6% ale go to support the Black Health Alliance. The beer comes in 500mL bottles. It’s a hazy, dull gold grog with a thin cover of off-white suds.

Piney aromatics are accented with some resin stickiness. The flavour, too, is resinous, dank, and evergreen focused, with a detour into citrus toward the finish. There is also a hint of mulled apple cider in there somewhere, too.

For a West Coast IPA, Obey the Rules doesn’t really follow its own eponymous suggestion—it is a bit under strength and I’d have expected clarity over haze. However, the flavour is highly agreeable, and that’s the main thing.

Rating: 8.0 out of 10.