Beer
Kick Back IPA: Now in Cans Year-Round
Summer at the beach. Grilling poolside with friends and family. Resting after a long hike. Now enjoy all these moments with Kick Back IPA, exclusively in 12 oz. cans, or on draft, year-round from Drake’s Brewing. The release is Drake’s first beer packaged in cans. It will also boost the financial impact of Drake’s Kick Back Program, which donates a portion of the beer’s six-pack sales revenue to the Regional Parks Foundation.
Originally released in bottles as a summer seasonal in 2016, Kick Back IPA is the perfect all-occasion, all-day drinking beer. It’s loaded with citrus, floral, tropical, and stone fruit flavors, from a blend of Cascade, Chinook, Mosaic, Simcoe, El Dorado and Pekko hops. The malt bill is primarily Two-Row and Pale Ale malt, with small additions of Golden Naked Oats and Hulled Barley Flakes. Kick Back IPA contains 51 IBUs and is 4.3% alcohol by volume.
“The response to Kick Back IPA since we launched the beer in 2016 had been phenomenal, and it’s the perfect choice for our first can release,” according to Drake’s Brewmaster, John Gillooly. “The beer is crisp, crushable, and filled with a ton of juicy hop flavor. It also pairs very nicely with a variety of food, from seared ahi tuna steak to fried chicken. I’ll be taking cans everywhere I go this summer.”
According to Juliana Schirmer, Development Director at the Regional Parks Foundation, “The money has been a huge plus. The Kick Back Program has also helped us branch out and engage the community in a new way. We’re attracting a younger demographic, a demographic we know love and use our parks, and many of them are beer enthusiasts! We even started the ‘What’s Brewin in the Parks?’ event series as a way to carry this success through the full year.”
Starting today, six-packs of Kick Back IPA are being shipped throughout Drake’s distribution territory. The arrival is just in time for spring, and a long beautiful summer. Next time you’re at the store, grab a six pack of Kick Back, and unwind at the end of your next adventure.