Inventive Ingredients: Crafted to taste like mochi — the sweet rice dough treat — Mosaic and Citra Hops ferment with toasted rice, milk sugar, vanilla, and real passionfruit! Tasty Treat: Sweet n’ creamy with bursts of tropical juice. Mochi Mouthfeel: Thick n’ juicy, like a melty fruit sorbet!

Man-buns and thick-rimmed glasses aside, I have to thank those hipsters for something — they’ve made mochi ice cream mainstream. I could snack on those little ice cream-filled rice dough balls all day! 

At least I could, until I went to Portland and discovered something the hipsters haven’t even heard of yet — Great Notion’s Milkshake IPA crafted to taste like a tropical mochi treat! 

Passion Fruit Mochi IPA shows exactly why Great Notion is one of Thrillist’s Hottest Breweries to Drink at Right Now. These guys don’t follow the trends — they MAKE trends. 

This is the first Mochi Beer I’ve ever tasted, and now I don’t know if I can go back to the plain ol’ ice cream version. 

This smoothie-like sipper tastes like if you took a bunch of passionfruit-flavored ice cream, blended it up with some fresh-squeezed citrus, vanilla cream, and sweet rice pudding, then coated it all in a 7% ABV. It’s mochi ice cream for adults only!

Give it a couple years, and I’ll bet everyone’ll be making Mochi Beer; by grabbing a couple cans now, you get a taste of the future. 

Rated 4.21 on Untappd!

Packaged On January 17th, 2020