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Discretion Brewing - 11th Conversation
Style: Witbier
ABV: 5.50%      IBU: 14.0

“May I please have another wit?” “I’m amused by the one you have.” A pinkish hibiscus hue tints this cloudy wheat beer. Each sip expresses a slightly tart fruitiness that refreshes the senses. Brewed with hibiscus flowers, coriander, orange and lemon peels.

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Discretion Brewing - 15th Conversation
Style: Session Ale
ABV: 4.30%     

Session Abbey ale, burnt orange in color, has aromas and flavors of multi-grain bread, with bright fruit and bitter spice notes

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Discretion Brewing - 16th Conversation
Style: Saison
ABV: 5.70%     

Unfiltered saison with a bright, refreshing, slightly tart flavor. Organic Darjeeling tea leaves added post-fermentation contribute floral and earthy notes.

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Discretion Brewing - 17th Conversation
Style: Belgian Pale Ale
ABV: 4.90%      IBU: 40.0

The frolicking hops in this hazy Belgian Pale might alter some geometry. Mango, melon, and pineapple aromas and fruity Belgian yeast esters play well together, gently pushing and pulling toward a well-rounded tropical fruit finish with a hint of spice and flowers.

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Discretion Brewing - 1st Conversation
Style: Saison
ABV: 5.80%      IBU: 21.0

“What are you drinking?” That first conversation between new-found friends has to start somewhere. Our Conversation Series, a line of Belgian-inspired beers, begins with this versatile saison. Malted barley, rye, and wheat are fermented with a farmhouse yeast strain that contributes fruity, citrusy, spicy notes.

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Discretion Brewing - 2nd Conversation
Style: Belgian Stout
ABV: 7.10%     

Belgian-style stout, cacao nibs from Ecuador, European roasted malts, and Belgian saison yeast make for an engaging brew. The aroma hints at dark chocolate, the flavor is rich and satisfying, and the surprisingly clean finish.

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Discretion Brewing - 4th Conversation
Style: Belgian Blonde
ABV: 7.00%      IBU: 24.0

“Sweet!” he declared. “Not really,” she replied. “It finishes quite dry.” She tossed her blonde hair. “It smells like pears to me,” she said. “With an edge. I like how it’s a little sweet at first, and spicy, then it finishes with a touch of bitterness from the hops.” She paused. “Pretty, yet complex.” “Like you,” he said.

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Discretion Brewing - 5th Conversation
Style: Belgian Dubbel
ABV: 7.30%      IBU: 23.0

A deep copper-colored Belgian-style Dubbel. Refined, complex and potent.

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Discretion Brewing - 6th Conversation
Style: Belgian Tripel
ABV: 8.90%      IBU: 27.0

Our Belgian-Style Tripel is unfiltered and golden in color. The aroma is full of fruity esters with a bit of spicy/grassy hops in the background. The flavor begins with a malty sweetness, then finishes with some warming alcohol and a moderately dry hop bitterness.

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Discretion Brewing - A Bay of Our Own
Style: Stout
ABV: 6.80%      IBU: 35.0

Monterey Bay sea salt and rich, dark caramel enhance our salted caramel stout, brewed with California-grown Maiden Voyage malt from Admiral Maltings. Local and sustainable ingredients plus the efforts, ideas, and camaraderie of 12 Monterey Bay Area breweries make this beer a celebration of place.

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Discretion Brewing - Accordion Man
Style: Vienna Lager
ABV: 6.10%      IBU: 24.0

Our golden-orange-hued Oktoberfest Lager is brewed with imported Pilsner, Vienna and Munich Malts for authenticity.

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Discretion Brewing - Bay Porter
Style: American Porter
ABV: 5.90%      IBU: 36.0

Our locally-raised Brewmaster has been wanting to name a porter after the Soquel freeway offramp since day one. Here it is, finally! (Must've been stuck in traffic...) Aromas of deeply roasted chocolate mingle with notes of toasted black bread. Smooth caramel on the tongue transitions to bittersweet chocolate and roasted malt flavors with a pleasingly bitter finish.

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Discretion Brewing - Best of Times
Style: English Bitter
ABV: 4.50%      IBU: 33.0

Some times call for superlatives. The Best of Times is an English-style Best Bitter. Our interpretation of that classic, sessionable style is orange-amber in color, with fruity, nutty, spicy aromatics contributed by a characterful British ale yeast. The flavor is at once mellow, somewhat toasty, and refreshingly bitter.

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Discretion Brewing - Biere De Garde
Style: Biere de Garde
ABV: 9.30%      IBU: 20.0

The Biere de Garde style originated as a farmhouse "beer to keep" in Northern France. Ours has been aged for nine months in bourbon barrels. It delivers notes of caramel, Rainier cherries, Marcona almonds, and a hint of peppery spice. Soft oak tannins give way to a crisp, dry finish.

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Discretion Brewing - Blooming Wit
Style: Witbier
ABV: 5.50%      IBU: 14.0

A pinkish hibiscus hue tints this cloudy wheat beer. Each sip expresses a slightly tart fruitiness that refreshes the senses. Brewed with hibiscus flowers, coriander, orange and lemon peels.

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Discretion Brewing - Bramble Ramble
Style: Kettle Sour
ABV: 5.10%      IBU: 5.0

Our Bramble Ramble is kettle-soured and then fermented with organic blackberries, which impart a berry tang and a pretty purple hue. Saison yeast adds to the complexity of this refreshing beer.

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Discretion Brewing - Brewers Unite for David!
Style: Session IPA
ABV: 4.80%      IBU: 38.0

Ten local breweries came together here at Discretion to brew this benefit beer for an injured local brewer. Discretion will donate 100% of the proceeds from this beer to David's fund at the Valley Medical Center Foundation. The beer is a hazy session IPA bursting with citrus and stone fruit aromas. Cheers to David!

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Discretion Brewing - Caramel Valley Fresh Hop
Style: Blonde
ABV: 4.80%      IBU: 25.0

We picked hops all day in an organic garden on a hill in Carmel Valley, and this beer showcases our efforts. Using freshly picked wet hops instead of dried hops imparts a subtle floral, grassy aroma which balances beautifully with the mellow pilsner malt base.

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Discretion Brewing - Chord Progression
Style: Sour
ABV: 6.10%      IBU: 12.0

The idea of hops and sour notes together may seem discordant at first, but one taste will set you on a harmonic journey to a resolution that feels like home. Fermentation lends the aroma notes of spice and earth. Dry-hopping adds tones of lime zest and apricot. The flavor is tart on the tongue, and then juicy nectarine floods the palate.

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Discretion Brewing - Coconut Telegram
Style: American IPA
ABV: 5.80%      IBU: 50.0

Coconut Telegram doesn't shout about coconut, but it clearly signals the news. Organic toasted Sri Lankan coconut adds tropical depth to this sunny IPA, while bright citrus and pineapple hop character enhances the message.

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Discretion Brewing - Cruzer Weisse
Style: Berliner Weissbier
ABV: 4.20%     

Cruzer Weisse is our Santa Cruz version of Berliner Weisse, a traditional Northern German style fermented with both yeast and lactobacillus. In Berlin, some drinkers add sugar syrups to counter act the sourness, but we embrace the gentle tartness of our kettle-soured Cruzer Weisse.

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Discretion Brewing - Dublin Sunburn
Style: Irish Red Ale
ABV: 5.00%      IBU: 19.0

Lars and Kathleen spent a week wandering around Dublin during a heatwave, and all the Dubliners were in the parks with their shirts off enjoying the feel of the sun on their skin. Day by day they walked through St. Stephens Green seeing redder and redder skin as everyone excitedly burned. It was a sunburn celebration. This is a traditional Irish Red: malty with a wee bit 'o hops for balance.

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Discretion Brewing - Early Journey
Style: American Pale Ale
ABV: 5.00%      IBU: 33.0

Early Journey is a SMaSH (Single Malt and Single Hop) beer featuring Organic Maiden Voyage malt from the newly opened Admiral Maltings in Alameda, CA. We pair this toasty, biscuity pale malt with experimental X-117 hops from The Oregon Hop House. This hop's grassy, earthy notes pair beautifully with the malt and together make for an exceptional pale ale!

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Discretion Brewing - Epigram
Style: Hoppy Lager
ABV: 4.20%      IBU: 25.0

Our small beer expresses more significance than many with twice the strength. Citrusy hop aromas and clean, refreshing lager character explore the paradox that small can be considerable.

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Discretion Brewing - Foggy Forest
Style: American IPA
ABV: 7.70%      IBU: 68.0

This West Coast-style IPA hints of forest pleasures with its dank, resinous, piney hop aroma.

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Discretion Brewing - Four Loves
Style: Lager
ABV: 4.40%      IBU: 27.0

Dry-hopping brings a piney earthiness to the rich, toasty-caramel malt in this amber lager originally brewed to celebrate Discretion Brewing's fourth anniversary. The balanced marriage of malt and hops yields a session beer with gratifying character and depth of flavor.

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Discretion Brewing - Free Day IPA
Style: American IPA
ABV: 7.70%      IBU: 72.0

Free Day IPA is brewed once a year to celebrate Independence Day. Each year, this beer is brewed with a new recipe. Be free. An all-pilsner malt base is like a clean, clear window letting the hops shine brightly through. The aroma promises boozy citrus and stone fruit with chewy resinous notes, and the flavor delivers.

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Discretion Brewing - Glorioski
Style: Amber
ABV: 5.70%      IBU: 39.0

“Glorioski!!,” Grandpa Larson would exclaim when delighted or impressed. This American Amber is glorious enough to warrant that booming expression of admiration, with its floral and citrus hop aroma melding harmoniously into caramel and pale malt flavor. This is a hop-forward, yet well-balanced West Coast-style amber.

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Discretion Brewing - Good Faith
Style: Strong Ale
ABV: 9.00%      IBU: 65.0

Our old shepherd Faith would’ve made a great brewery dog, but she didn’t live quite long enough. (Dogs never do.) Here’s to her and to all the good dogs. Good Faith is a Strong Ale, with malt derived toffee and dried fruit notes.

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Discretion Brewing - Here Gose
Style: Sour
ABV: 4.40%      IBU: 5.0

Here gose our rendition of this 1000-year-old style, which originated in Goslar, Germany and used the area's mineral-rich water and open fermentation to deliver its characteristic tart and salt-tinged tang. Ours is kettle-soured and sea-salted, with the addition of the traditional coriander and some nontraditional lemon, orange, and grapefruit zest. This is one of the only beer types that has its own toast: when drinking gose, instead of "cheers," say "goseanna!"

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Discretion Brewing - Hi Citra
Style: American IPA
ABV: 7.00%      IBU: 35.0

Hi Citra! We will never get tired of hanging out with you. Your exceptional aromas and flavors of orange, guava, melon, and green pine are so alluring. You make such a sweet first impression, and then you continue to entice and refresh us. You can come over any time.

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Discretion Brewing - Hop BeBop
Style: India Pale Ale
ABV: 5.80%      IBU: 43.0

Notes of pine and citrus play well together in this easy-drinking, highly aromatic IPA.

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Discretion Brewing - Hopzwickle
Style: Pale Lager
ABV: 4.70%      IBU: 33.0

It's a pale, hazy, unfiltered lager generously dry-hopped with American aroma bombs Citra and Mosaic. The aroma is citrus and tropical fruit giving way to slightly sweet pilsner malt flavor and a mildly bitter finish.

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Discretion Brewing - Jugo Nuevo Northeast IPA
Style: India Pale Ale
ABV: 5.40%     

Tons of tropical fruit notes on the nose, it's almost a dead ringer for pineapple juice. On the palate it is more subtle and dry with a little yeasty bite. It's QUITE cloudy.

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Discretion Brewing - Let Me Be Clear
Style: American IPA
ABV: 6.70%      IBU: 35.0

Let me be clear. I'm a juicy IPA, but you can (almost) see right through me. A nose of pineapple, kumquat, and lemon flower leads you into a delectable citrus punch, low in bitterness and redolent of fruity hops.

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Discretion Brewing - Mickie Malone's
Style: Irish Dry Stout
ABV: 4.70%      IBU: 42.0

Mickie Malone’s Irish eyes were usually smiling. She had a kind heart and a smile that beamed. I miss you Mom; this one’s for you. Love, Michael

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Discretion Brewing - Mickie Malone's -- NITRO
Style: Irish Dry Stout
ABV: 4.70%      IBU: 42.0

Mickie Malone’s Irish eyes were usually smiling. She had a kind heart and a smile that beamed. I miss you Mom; this one’s for you. Love, Michael Irish-Style Dry Stout served on Nitro

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Discretion Brewing - Night Walk
Style: Black IPA
ABV: 6.50%      IBU: 70.0

Put away the flashlights. The darkness is friendly and brings into focus the night's scents and sounds. In our Night Walk, a dry-hopped black ale, bold hops mingle with chocolaty roast malt. Can an IPA be the color of night?

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Discretion Brewing - Oh Black Lager
Style: Schwarzbier
ABV: 4.70%      IBU: 30.0

Oh Black Lager, Keep on Rollin’… The sound of the black lager happily burbling in the brew house brought this song to mind. Similar in style to a German Schwarzbier, this lager is dark brown in color with a roasted malt aroma and a lingering finish. Its flavor is malty and mellow with a slight roasty edge reminiscent of bitter chocolate.

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Discretion Brewing - On The Porch
Style: American Pale Ale
ABV: 6.00%      IBU: 32.0

An easy drinking pale ale with bready malt flavors and a refreshingly mild citrus hop bite.

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Discretion Brewing - Participate
Style: New England IPA
ABV: 5.80%      IBU: 30.0

Amarillo, chinook, & simcoe hops.

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Discretion Brewing - Peachy Please
Style: American IPA
ABV: 7.10%      IBU: 40.0

Peachy Please pour me a pint of IPA kissed by organic peaches and basil. This juicy beer suggests summertime strolls in orchards and gardens, with hints of sweet peach and the subtle green spiciness of basil balancing generous dry-hopping with Mosaic and Idaho 7.

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Discretion Brewing - Pebble Project
Style: Pale Ale
ABV: 4.80%      IBU: 33.0

Features Mozaic hops with tropical and fruity aromas. Easy drinking pale ale.

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Discretion Brewing - Pogonip Pale
Style: American Pale Ale
ABV: 5.20%      IBU: 25.0

This hazy pale ale honors non-profit The Homeless Garden Project’s new Pogonip Farm. Fresh grapefruit and meyer lemon zests bring a pleasant bitter edge to the biscuity malt notes, with hops contributing hints of flowers and mint.

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Discretion Brewing - Prickly Pear Necessities
Style: Sour
ABV: 4.60%      IBU: 5.0

What a treat, that a prickly cactus hides sweet fruit beneath its spines! Our (Prickly) Pear Necessities is kettle-soured and then fermented with organic prickly pears, which lend it a neon pink glow. The exotic aroma is both fruity and earthy, while the subtle tartness hints of watermelon rind and sour bubblegum.

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Discretion Brewing - Raspberry Smile
Style: Fruit Beer
ABV: 4.70%      IBU: 9.0

Raspberries and hibiscus bring happy pink flavors and fruity aromas to this tart and refreshing beer. It tastes like a smile.

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Discretion Brewing - Redwood Mountain Blonde
Style: Blonde
ABV: 5.30%      IBU: 26.0

Originally brewed for the Redwood Mountain Faire, this blonde ale is a favorite for summer sipping beneath our beloved, towering redwoods. Delightfully bright and refreshing, its low bitterness and subtle malt expression will win you over.

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Discretion Brewing - Rock Skip
Style: Session IPA
ABV: 4.80%      IBU: 49.0

Sitting by the creek, we launch flat rocks and watch them skip. We could do this all day. Rock Skip is a "Session IPA." It has the bitter bite and hoppy aroma of an IPA, but with significantly lower alcohol, so you can enjoy more of it! We dry hop this beer with Centennial and Cascade for a floral/citrus aroma.

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Discretion Brewing - Scenic Stout
Style: Stout
ABV: 6.80%      IBU: 50.0

This export stout's roasty, chocolatey flavors are rounded out by the addition of flaked oats.

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Discretion Brewing - Shimmer Pils
Style: Pilsner
ABV: 5.30%      IBU: 31.0

She has a shimmery depth, like light on the fathomless sea. Our brewer’s wife, Eileen, inspired the name of this beer. Shimmer Pils is a crisp and refreshing German-style Pilsner, a true lager with a balanced hoppiness.

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Discretion Brewing - Song In Your Heart
Style: Brown Ale
ABV: 4.00%      IBU: 24.0

British-Style session beer with soft roasty caramel notes and no bitterness.

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Discretion Brewing - Submarine Canyon
Style: American IPA
ABV: 6.10%      IBU: 43.0

Our first can release, a Meyer Lemon and Sea Salt IPA to benefit Save Our Shores.

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Discretion Brewing - Tart You Glad?
Style: Brown Ale
ABV: 6.20%      IBU: 8.0

Tart you glad our kettle-soured brown ale features raspberries? The aroma greets you with prominent raspberry character, and rich malt with notes of raisin, prune, and a hint of chocolate complement and soften the tart raspberry. The finish is full-bodied yet so refreshing!

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Discretion Brewing - Ten Million Flowers
Style: Kolsch
ABV: 5.80%      IBU: 23.0

Tens of millions of flowers were visited by local bees to make the honey that gives a taste of place and a dry finish to our Kolsch-style ale. Vinous esters mingle with a wisp of honey in the nose. The delicate malt flavor is gently accented with a touch of orange zest in this refreshing, food friendly beer.

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Discretion Brewing - Too Dense To Float
Style: Amber
ABV: 5.10%      IBU: 35.0

Amber, the tree-sap-derived gemstone, can be distinguished from ambergris, a whale product, by the fact that it's too dense to float. Ponder this while sipping our amber ale, its malty body hinting at biscuit and toast before meandering towards toffee and dates. Hops lend a subdued and classic pine-focused balance, with a bright and fruity twist to finish.

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Discretion Brewing - Trip Trap Trip Trap
Style: Bock
ABV: 8.10%      IBU: 25.0

"Bock" means "billy goat," and the name of our bock is the sound of the hooves of the 3 billy goats Gruff on the bridge that brings them to the sweet green meadow. Trip Trap is a dark, strong, Munich-Style lager with complex maltiness.

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Discretion Brewing - Tumbling Toast
Style: Lager
ABV: 4.60%      IBU: 18.0

It's a dry-hopped SMaSH lager brewed with all Vienna malt and Cascade hops. It's a beautiful medium honey colored lager with lovely toasty malt notes as you'd expect form the Vienna malt. The hop profile comes across with all the citrusy goodness you'd expect out of Cascade. It's clean and dry and super drinkable.

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Discretion Brewing - Uncle Dave's Rye IPA
Style: Rye IPA
ABV: 6.50%      IBU: 68.0

Our Rye IPA has fruity/herbal hop aromas with a substantial supporting maltiness. The rye contributes a hint of peppery spice to this full bodied, complex IPA.

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Discretion Brewing - Unseen By Bees
Style: Red IPA
ABV: 6.50%      IBU: 37.0

Bees have five eyes but don't see the color red. Too bad, they will bumble right by this red IPA, unless enticed by its aromas of candied orange peel and pine leading to fruity citrus flavors rounded by caramel malt. Colorblind or not, you will be drawn in.

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Discretion Brewing - Wisdom Wheat Kindness
Style: Wheat Ale
ABV: 4.60%      IBU: 20.0

This American wheat beer is straw-colored and light-bodied with a refreshing finish. Wai-ti hops from New Zealand contribute hoppy hints of citrus and stone fruit.

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