Black Narrows Piney Grove IPA 4/16

Excerpt from Garden & Gun:

Josh Chapman, who co-founded Black Narrows Brewing Co. on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, approaches brewing beer like he approached cooking in his former life as a chef: “Find the best local ingredients in season and do the least to them,” he says. In Virginia, the search for those ingredients led him to longleaf pine, a tree—and an entire ecosystem—that was once a defining feature of the South’s landscape. The brewery’s new beer, Long Leaf IPA, showcases the threatened tree and its story. …

The resulting beer—of which Chapman brewed the most of anything he’s produced to date—is deep and earthy, with notes of grapefruit and bubblegum, and he describes the finish as softly resinous, like pine sap. “It’s a beer that tells a Virginia story—the story of a forgotten forest that people like Bobby have worked silently for decades to save.”

Four pack of 16oz cans.