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If you’re a craft beer drinker in Los Angeles, you’re already very familiar with the West Coast IPA. But over the last couple years, a new style of IPA has descended upon LA – the Hazy IPA.

In case you’re not familiar, Hazy IPAs, or New England IPAs, are a style of IPA that started out on the East Coast in the mid-2000s and are typically characterized as low bitterness, fruit-forward, juicy tasting hoppy beers that look, well, hazy.

To put it simply, that sweeter taste and turbid appearance is typically achieved by late hop additions as well as not filtering out malt proteins, hop particulates, and suspended yeast. And when done right, the combination results in a bright, hop-forward juice component and a softer, full-bodied mouthfeel that is unlike any other beer style out there.

The haze craze in Los Angeles started in April 2016 with a collaboration Hazy IPA between Monkish in Torrance and Other Half from New York, and just snowballed from there.

Today, more and more breweries are dabbling in the style, but there’s only a handful that really pull it off well. Here’s your guide to the best Hazy IPA breweries in Los Angeles.