Hops: Strata, Simcoe, HBC 586 What is a Cold IPA you might ask? It’s an IPA that uses a lager yeast and fermented at higher “ale like” temperatures to highlight the hops and make it crispier, cleaner, and utterly crushable! Not an IPL, or a Brut IPA, or a dry hopped Lager, but in a class of it’s own. Some have even called it the “antithesis” to a hazy!