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Equilibrium BreweryMiddletown, NY
  • Double / Imperial IPA
  • 8.5% ABV
  • Label approved Jul 28

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Equilibrium Brewery's Double / Imperial IPA. Label approved 28 July 2026; not spotted yet.

Stronger than 55% of the 1,373 Double IPA labels we've read.

From the label

“Beer Balanced by Science”

How to serve it

Serve at
48–54°F (9–12°C)
Glass
Tulip: the narrow top holds the aroma in and the head up

About 240–275 calories and 19–28 g carbs

About 165 of those calories come from the alcohol.

General guidance for Double / Imperial IPA. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools

Where to find it

No account neededTell me when it's out

Not spotted yet. We'll write the day it is.

One email when it's first spotted — on a list we check, in a scan, or in the brewery's announcement. Nothing else, and a stop link in it.

We track beers, we don't sell them, so no stock promises. These are the searches we'd run for this one.

Readers' scores

About this beer

This is the 46th of 59 labels we have from Equilibrium Brewery. It is one of 180 double / imperial ipa labels approved in July 2026. It was submitted and approved the same day.

The artwork

A geometric mandala of connected golden spheres and cyan lines forms the central motif, surrounded by orbiting particles and flowing energy streams rendered as glowing dots and curved trails across a deep black ground. The composition balances a crystalline sacred-geometry form at centre with a scatter of golden and cyan nodes radiating outward in spiralling patterns. The palette combines deep black, burnished gold, and electric cyan, with the beer name and style positioned in white sans-serif type below the central geometry.

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Brew it

A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.

The bench sheet

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