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Dad Strength IPA (Chantilly, VA)
- Session IPA
- 2.9% ABV
- Label approved Aug 4
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90 seek it out · 80 would buy again · 70 fine, wouldn't seek it · 60 disappointing · 40 flawed or drain pour
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Dad Strength Brewing's Session IPA. Label approved 4 August 2026; not spotted yet.
Lighter than 93% of the 145 Session IPA labels we've read.
From the label“The Dadstory A few years back, little dad (Craig) was mixing full-strength and non-alcoholic beers in the same glass to make his own mid-strength brew. One day he told big dad (Ryan), who said, "That's genius. I love craft beer, but it doesn't love me, and I don't need extra calories. Why doesn't this exist? Let's make it." Cut to an 80's style beer-making montage and voilá, Dad Strength Brewing was born. We make super-crushable, low-ABV, low-calorie beers we think are changing the future of drinking. Try it and you'll see why we say: it's brewed for a better tomorrow.”
How to serve it
- Serve at
- 42–48°F (6–9°C)
- Glass
- Nonic pint: the bulge gives you a grip and room for a head
- Goes with
- Hot wings, Tacos, Nachos and game-day snacks
About 90–115 calories and 9–14 g carbs
About 55 of those calories come from the alcohol.
General guidance for Session IPA. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools
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About this beer
This is the 5th of 5 labels we have from Dad Strength Brewing. It is one of 19 session ipa labels approved in August 2026. It was submitted and approved the same day.
A vertical bar chart dominates the label, rendered in pale blue, slate, gold, and forest green segments, illustrating the beer's 94-calorie content relative to ABV and other metrics. The design is flanked by bold black sans-serif type reading "DAD STRENGTH" and "IPA" with the ABV callout "2.9%" positioned above the chart. Below the chart, "94 Calories!" appears in italic script, and two small pen-and-ink character portraits—one with a moustache saying "I'm thirsty!" and one older face saying "Hi, thirsty, I'm Dad!"—sit at the centre in a joke format. A narrative text block titled "The Dadstory" occupies the upper centre, describing the beer's origin.
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A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.
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Style: IPABrewery: Dad Strength Brewing