Rebel IPA is Samuel Adams brewers first take on a West Coast style IPA. They started brewing it in 2014, but three years later, the brewers challenged themselves to make it even better. They undertook Project Lupulus, which optimized the flavor of each hop variety by changing the blend and ratio of hops. As part of this project, Sam Adams collaborated with a hop breeder in Yakima Valley, WA to create a new hop variety that is proprietary and exclusive to them called HBC 566. Rebel IPA now ha,