The brewery's menu, embedded on its craft beer page, names six hop products: Mosaic, two New Zealand varieties (Nectaron and Riwaka) and three forms of Citra (pellet, Cryo and Dynaboost). No malt, yeast or other ingredients are published.
As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for New Zealand-Style India Pale Ale calls for intense floral, tropical, citrus or grassy hop character balanced by malt, 6.3 to 7.5 percent ABV and 50 to 70 IBU. The 6.9% ABV fits; no IBU is published to compare.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
New Zealand-Style India Pale Ale
Gold
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Brewery Context
8 Bit Brewing Co. is in Murrieta, CA. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Brewpub.
Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked untappd.com, 8bitbrewingcompany.com, 8bitbrewingcompany.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
Field pass 2026-10-13: Targeted bitterness searches outside the already recorded Untappd source found no numerical IBU for this beer.
The brewery's craft beer page loads its menu from an Untappd for Business embed; the style, ABV and hop list were read from that embed. There is no individual beer page.
The Untappd beer page, which carries the brewery's own description, confirms the 6.9% ABV and the 2026 GABF gold and lists the style as an American IPA; IBU is shown as N/A.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the description on file comes from Untappd and is not extended into hop forms or uses.