Bright Brewery Inversion High Density Hop Charge Hazy IPA

Bright Brewery

Published February 9, 2021

Who needs abbreviations like DDH and NEIPA when tallboy tinnies give you enough room to plaster long-form on them? Certainly, the team at Bright Brewery clearly felt no need to keep things tight with their imperial version of Inversion, which is described as a "High Density Hop Charge Imperial Hazy IPA".

If we break that down, there's certainly a high density to the hazy appearance, with this 8.5 percent ABV drop displaying the requisite deeply opaque, orange-yellow haziness required for Instagram photos. There's also a high density when it comes to the aroma and flavour, suggesting the hop charge in combination with the rest of its parts was a sizeable one. The experience flits from a tropical fruit-laced fluffy sponge cake topped with a drizzle of syrup to something more texturally prickly and grassily, pithily bitter.

Looking back at what we had to say about its forebear, the Inversion NEIPA, it does appear to have taken that beer's characteristics – fruity, sweet, bitter, cloudy – and souped them all up. It's a policy that makes for a pretty boisterous rather than balanced beer, but evidence on social media suggests that's what many drinkers are after in their imperial NEIPAs, so job done.

James Smith

Style
Imperial Hazy IPA
ABV
8.5%
Name
Bright Brewery
Address

121 Great Alpine Road
Bright
VIC 3741

Phone
(03) 5755 1301
Regular events

Sundays: Live music in the beer garden

Open Hours

Daily: 11am to evening

Tours

Last Friday of every month (excl PH)
Every Friday of Vic school holidays from 3pm
$35 for guided brewery tour and tasting paddle