The beer: Mind Haze (Firestone Walker Brewing, Paso Robles, Calif.), a hazy IPA. The back story: We’re several years into the haze craze — that is, the ascendance of low-bitterness, fruit-forward ...

Matt Brynildson contemplates Hazy IPA. Photo courtesy Firestone Walker. Hazy IPA is somewhat ubiquitous these days, aside from the area’s larger breweries, who up until now thought bypassing their ...

When I first saw the headlines from beer blogs proclaiming that Firestone Walker was finally ready to unleash its first hazy IPA, my immediate thought was something along the lines of “wait, haven’t ...

When I was in college, a good friend said he didn’t like a particularly popular beer because it was too hoppy. “Too hoppy?” I wondered. “How could that be?” But then came the next two decades of hop ...