Longtime Tavour members might remember our fight to get Champion Brewing’s Fruitbasket DIPA. It took us three years! Literally - THREE years! Now we know wrestling it away from the locals is always going to be a touch and go affair. Big sigh because this year? Success!

This cult DIPA from Charlottesville, VA is one of the state’s most popular seasonal releases. Brewed with orange juice, grapefruit juice, citrus zest and an endless buffet of fruity Mosaic Hops – one sip is like swallowing an entire orchard.

Fans rave about its bitter three-dimensional servings of pineapple, crisp honeydew, tangerine, blood orange and apricot. Juice, seeds, and notes of woody branches and fresh green leaves from the hops pop out of every sip. Super light and spritzy, its 8% ABV is barely detectable but rest assured you’re sipping booze from a fresh fruit stand.

This constant sell out sensation is one undeniable reason why Champion Brewing is fast becoming a destination for craft beer fans up and down the Eastern seaboard and throughout the south.

Canned on 12/21/17