Best Go Brewing Beers

One of the more interesting brewery lineups because it reaches into sour, pils, and dark beer as well as IPA.

Go Brewing is worth expanding because the beers do not all collapse into one style.

That alone makes the brewery more interesting than a lot of hop-heavy NA brands. Go’s own site emphasizes award-winning, small-batch non-alcoholic craft beer brewed in Illinois, and the lineup stretches from tropical IPA to sour to pilsner and darker bottles.

Sunshine State Tropical IPA

Sunshine State Tropical IPA is the easiest place to begin.

Go describes pineapple, mango, and peach, which makes the beer easy to place: warm weather, bright hops, and drinkers who want something fruit-led and lively rather than bitter and stern. The brewery also notes lactose in this beer, which matters for anyone with dairy concerns.

New School Sour Berry

New School Sour Berry is where Go gets more distinctive.

Blueberry, strawberry, and tartness give it a very different role from the IPA side of the range. For drinkers who like sour beer, or who are tired of every brewery acting as if IPA is the only style that matters, this is one of the more interesting bottles around.

Pilsner and dark beer

Go becomes more useful once you look beyond IPA and sour.

Its medal-winning collection points to a gold-medal pilsner and darker beer, which suggests more ambition than most breweries trying to live off one or two hop-forward cans.

Bottom line

Start with Sunshine State Tropical IPA for the easiest first bottle. Go to New School Sour Berry when you want something less predictable. Pay attention to the pilsner and dark beers if the goal is a brewery with more range than the average hop-heavy lineup.