Fixation Brewing Obsession Session IPA

Style
Session IPA
ABV
4.6%

The mystery beer referred to in our December 2017 blind tasting write up? That was this, a session-minded addition to the Fixation lineup of IPAs. Slotting in as the little sibling to the brewing company's flagship IPA, Obsession is a session IPA (also referred to on the label as "where extra pale ale meets IPA") and gives Fixation fans a first sub-5 percent ABV beer.

Aside from the fact they nailed the name, the beer itself continues the brewing company's mission to focus on hops above all. Pine/spruce dominates the aroma alongside some citrus fruits, joined by some earthy, pine forest like flavours in a beer that's pretty light on its feet while still delivering enough drying bitterness to justify the "IPA" tag.

As mentioned above, we slotted Obsession into our most recent pale ale blind tasting to provide feedback to Tom "Mr Fixation" Delmont, one of our most regular judges from day one. Given the beer wasn't yet out in bottles (although had been launched on tap) and wasn't in the original tasting lineup we'd curated, to preserve the integrity of our tastings we didn't include the beer in the official results. Had we done so, however, with Tom's scores for all beers removed, Obsession would have slotted in second behind Nail's VPA, suggesting his partnership with the Stone & Wood brewing team is onto another winner.

Since launch, Obsession has gone on to rival the original IPA as the brewery's biggest seller and, as of winter 2019, is available in cans instead of bottles.

Published December 6, 2017

Name
Fixation Brewing Co (Lion/Kirin)
Address

414 Smith Street
Collingwood
VIC 3066

Open Hours

Thurs: 4pm to 10pm
Fri: 2pm to 10pm
Sat: midday to 10pm
Sun: midday to 6pm
Takeaway
2pm to 5pm

Pickled OnMarket
CBCo Goldy

More from Fixation Brewing Co (Lion/Kirin)

Fixation Brewing Freshly Hatched: Ghost Chips NZ Hazy IPA
NZ Hazy IPA
8.0%
Fixation Brewing Freshly Hatched: Double Down Brown
Coffee India Brown Ale
7.0%
Fixation Brewing Freshly Hatched: 24 Hr Mini Golf
Oat Cream DIPA
8.4%
Fixation Freshly Hatched: Mez Dorado IPA
Spiced Kettle Sour IPA
6.8%
Fixation Brewing Pink Guava & Airing Of Grievances
Fruit Beer & Hazy IPA
5.8% & 6.8%
Fixation Brewing Freshly Hatched: 30666
Imperial Red IPA
9.666%
Fixation Brewing Straight To DVD, Deep Green, Sparkle & Fade & Piece Of Cake
Various IPAs
6.5% & 7.0% & 8.2% &
Fixation Brewing Freshly Hatched #3: Danker Things
TDH Hazy IPA
7.0%
Fixation Mighty Boy, 100, Blues For The Red Sun & Social Space
Various IPAs
4.8% & 6.4% & 7.0% & 8.5%
Fixation Brewing You Tell Me, Symbiotic Robotic & Blush
NEIPA & Black IPA & Sour IPA
6.8% & 5.4% & 4.7%
Fixation Brewing You're On Mute, Hearing Colours, Oi! & Seismic Wave
IPAs
& 5.2% & 6.7% & 5.8%
Fixation Brewing Fall & Quick Fix
Oat Cream IPA & Kveik IPA
6.3% & 5.9%
Fixation Brewing Danker Things & Half Cut
Hazy IPA & Hazy Mid-Strength
7.0% & 3.5%
Fixation Brewing Dreamseeker IPA
IPA
7.2%
Fixation Brewing Totally Rad, Don't Brett On It & Paw Paw Pow
Radler, Brett IPA, Fruit DIPA
3.2% & 5.7% & 7.8%
Fixation Brewing Little Ray Hazy IPA
Hazy IPA
5.2%
Fixation Recliner & NSR & Hop Tingle & Midnight Sun IPAs
IPAs
5.8% & 5.2% & 6.5% & 6.8%
Fixation Brewing TNT Express
IPA
6.2%
Fixation Brewing Wet Hop 2019
Wet Hop IPA
6.9%
Fixation & Wizard State Of Mind Hazy IPA
Hazy IPA