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 listed ABV fits this range; the reported bitterness exceeds it.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
New Zealand-Style India Pale Ale
Bronze
Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.
Brewery Context
Barebottle Brewing Co. is in San Francisco, CA. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.
Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked beervolta.com, untappd.com, barebottle.com, barebottle.com, barebottle.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
Research Notes
Field pass 2026-10-13: Targeted brewery-domain and beer-page searches found no qualifying brewery beer URL beyond the previous research.
Second pass 2026-10-13: Found matching beer listings with ABV, IBU and named hops. Untappd reports 6.7% ABV, retained here; Beer Volta reports 6.8%. No brewery beer page or additional recipe details were found.
Not found on the brewery home page, its flagships page (Muir Woods IPA, Hella Hetchy) or its homebrew recipes page; barebottle.com/beer returned 404.
No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the description on file comes from Untappd and is not extended.