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Viable Cells

Hop Butcher for the WorldBedford Park, IL
  • American Pale Ale
  • 6.5% ABV
  • Label approved Nov 10

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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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Hop Butcher for the World's American Pale Ale. Label approved 10 November 2026; not spotted yet.

Stronger than 72% of the 775 American Pale Ale labels we've read.

How to serve it

Serve at
45–50°F (7–10°C)
Glass
Nonic pint: the bulge gives you a grip and room for a head

About 185–205 calories and 15–20 g carbs

About 125 of those calories come from the alcohol.

General guidance for American Pale Ale. 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

Also naming Columbus and Nelson Sauvin

About this beer

This is the 90th of 90 labels we have from Hop Butcher For The World. It is one of 29 american pale ale labels approved in November 2026. Its label was approved 4 days after it was submitted. The label names 3 hops — Nelson Sauvin, Columbus and Cryo-Hopped.

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Brew it

The label names its hops (Nelson Sauvin, Columbus, Cryo-Hopped), which is enough for a real starting point.

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Style: Pale AleBrewery: Hop Butcher for the World