Garage Project JEKYLL West Coast IPA

TASTING NOTES

One recipe, two beers. Jekyll & Hyde, an identical base of pale malt, oats and wheat, heavily hopped with Simcoe and Mosaic, spawns two very different beers – one a bright West Coast IPA, the other its hazy East Coast alter ego. Jekyll might seem like the bright, clean cut type, but appearances can be deceiving. What kind of wild hop driven excess lies trapped inside? Crack the can and release the beast.

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

Based in Wellington, NZ, The Garage Project is Pete Gillespie, Jos Ruffell, and Ian Gillespie. When they started out, they were tiny. Garage Project wasn’t even micro brewing; it was a truly nano brewery. When brewing on such a small scale, one can afford to take risks. That suited the guys from Garage Project, always on a quest to try something new. Three years have passed and they’ve grown, but that same ethos still shapes how they do things at the Garage. Whether they’re brewing 50 litres or 2000, they’re still there to take some risks, to have a bit of fun and to try something new.

DID YOU KNOW?

Brewer Pete Gillespie had worked for a decade in English breweries including Brakespear and Hepworth. He moved from Australia to Wellington before launching Garage Project with his brother Ian and a former video game designer, Jos Ruffell.