Eighty-Eight Brewing Co.

Juicy, hazy, tropical. Big citrus flavor and hop profile with subdued bitterness.

A tropical inspired IPA that is more fun than a rec centre birthday party! This gateway IPA is hopped with juicy, tropical hop varietals -- Amarillo, El Dorado and Ekuanot (Equinox) and finished with a yeast that drives the mango, pineapple and stone fruit flavours.

We harnessed the power of a Norwegian Kveik yeast to ferment this beauty fast and hot.  The result is a sexy, hazy golden yellow brew that is a tornado of hops, juice and party.  It smells like a boozy tropical fruit salad!  Pineapple, papaya and melon flavours dominate with a nice touch of red berry provided by the Barbe Rouge and Mosaic hops.

So Much Coffee! Strong roasted coffee and chocolate with wood on the back end. Sweet but balanced. Moderate to strong bitterness from heavy hop additions and roasted coffee.

Nothing represented order more than locking those notes in your paper folder. This delicious dry hopped sour is about taking the power back. Let loose and pucker up!

U Can't Touch This! Our award-winning (2022 Alberta Beer Awards Gold) American Pale Ale with the prominent flavors of pine, stonefruit and citrus. The subtle bitterness and clean finish make this a ridiculously easy drinking go-to for pretty much anyone

The latest addition to our core-beer line-up, Hi-Fi, is a Hazy IPA designed for good vibrations and to keep the party at the perfect volume all night long. Over the past 2 years we’ve brewed over 20 small-batch IPAs and Hazy beauties, this one is the culmination of all that learning! It’s got the soft mouthfeel that we’ve been working on with our new water system, the cold whirlpool technique that we’ve been using to keep those grassy flavours at bay, plus a blend of Azacca, Mosaic and Cashmere hops to keep the bitterness low and the juiciness high! The experimenting and tinkering has been paying off and we can say this Hazy IPA hit all the right notes.

It's Complicated. Don’t let the scrunchie fool you, Tiffany likes to let her hair down. Bright pink with a sassy tartness, it's a dance off between our Golden Ale and red wine grapes. The result is a bone dry, crazily crushable, dangerous lover friend.

Triple Berry Milkshake Sour IPA. Brewed with milk sugar and then soured with various lacto strains, we added equal parts raspberry, blackberry and blueberry puree to the fermentation and the dry hopped heavily with Idaho 7.

This recipe was born out of '88 love for humongous West Coast IPA’s. Its forward, aggressive and maybe even a bit brash. This is the bad influence. Go for it! What’s the worst that could happen…

Nearly two hundred pounds of locally sourced Alberta honey were used to create the backbone of this Honey Hazy Double IPA. Add in some amazing specialty malt from our good friends at Origin Malting and you have yourself a punchy, creamy and undeniably memorable jooos bomb! Mango, Orange and of course honey hit you up front and as you play it fades to just the right amount of sweet with low bitterness, and an ultra creamy mouth feel. This beer is magic and one we are hyper excited to share. Best suited for adventures, alternate worlds & hidden treasure, this whistle is going to take you places!

Open this brew and the room will be filled with heavy mango, citrus and a touch of pine! Power Wheels drinks (too) easy, ending with a nice soft finish. Brewed with the hard to procure Mosaic INCOGNITO (CO2 extracted hop resin), it's meant to solve the age old problem of how to jam in even more hop flavor without the typical pitfalls of going a wee bit too far, notably hop burn or grassy flavors. Power Wheels, a hilariously hopped all Mosaic Hazy IPA with INCOGNITO, T90 and cryo Mosaic used through the entire process and then heavily dry hopped with Mosaic and cryo Mosaic. Should we say Mosaic one more time. MOSAIC!!

Sangria Sour! Collab with Camp Brand Goods.

Dial Up has long been a staff favourite for its more balanced and sessionable approach. It has a slightly tweaked malt bill from our usual hazy stash, it’s more medium bodied, and it has perfect balance between bitter and sweet. Hopped at 10g/L with Hallertau Blanc, El Dorado and Cascade it has amazing aromas of passionfruit, pear and pineapple, but finishes heavy on the citrus. In short, it’s lovely and worth the wait.

For Leisure Center we've used multiple types of hop technologies with several hopping techniques to achieve very high dry hopping rates, huge aromas, and juicy flavors while minimizing grassy notes and vegetal flavors. Technically, this hopping rate would be 3x bigger than anything we've done yet! 30 grams per liter!! This beer uses the same water profile from Pillow Talk and even creamier malt bill with several different varieties of oats. Then cometh the hops! We started with heavy whirlpool additions of Ekuanot Incognito, Citra Incognito, and Citra Cryo and after the whirlpool, we performed a DIP hop which is essentially steeping the hops before pushing into the fermenter.

Wet Bandits features a very large classic west coast back bone that is treated with loads of late kettle additions of Galaxy, Cryo Amarillo, and Cryo Mosaic. We upped the dry hop ever so slightly from previous Sticky iterations up to 15g/L with same combo which added to the rather forward aroma in the best way! Think extremely well balanced, its dank, oily, & juicy, with bright citrus, passion fruit and red berry notes. More fun than a van ride with the Kenosha Kickers, it’s a pleasure to behold and yes at 10%, you will feel it.

When @estbrew and @eightyeightbrewco get together, we pull out all the stops. That means using a brand-new Reverse Osmosis water system, a Hop Egg to dry-hop under pressure, and an old German method of naturally carbonating beer called Spunding! Plus we got to combine the brewing minds behind all your favourite beers to create a recipe worthy of this momentous collaboration! Just What I Needed might actually be just what you need! An Imperial Hazy IPA with a soft, creamy body and pumped full of Cryo Pop and Citra, Citra Cryo and Citra Incognito hops. Your nose will catch the pineapple, mango, and candy right before your tongue grabs the citrus fruits and sweetness It sticky, bitter, sweet and big, the way it should be!

Thank your brewers for this one as “Pick Me Up” was one helluva labour of love. To achieve max stout and pack in as much flavour as physically possible, we actually needed to brew the beer twice using 5 different malts, loads of flaked oats and then over 15 kg of lady fingers (note from brewers: Do you know how god damn light a lady finger is!!) This big grain bill provides a huge sweet body and layers of roasty flavours. After the mash, we added milk sugar and boiled the wort for over 2 hours, which helps to caramelize the sugars and create a richer, thicker bee

Similar to Night Gallery, this beer uses a blend of Citra, Simcoe and Ekuanot hops, but in the case of Double Night Gallery we we also layered in incognito hops, cyro hops, dip hopping and double dry hopping to push the bitterness wayyyy down and the aromatics to legendary status. All your familiar friends are there; grapefruit, mandarin, pine, cotton candy, and peach, but if you can believe it they are somehow sexier than ever before!

Take your foot off the gas and engage, Cruise Control! Let this big bad westie wash over you with it's crisp bitterness and light body.

Fig Newton Barley Wine aged on American oak and fresh figs, adding layers of complexity and fruitiness.

Our first of five birthday beers. Smoother, softer, hoppier with an ultra-light haze.

Brewed for Sled Island 2023, Playback is a highly crushable hazy with tons of citrus aroma and flavour.

Brewed in collaboration with Beaumont’s very own Chartier,this ain't just any old stout, we pulled out all the tricks and then some! Starting with a softer than usual water profile we added loads of flaked oats, caramelized sugar and milk sugar to an already very chocolate heavy malt bill to mimic the velvety brownie base. To that we added cocoa nibs, salt, maple syrup, maple syrup whiskey, pecans, and Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla! We finished this beer with one (maybe 5) more maple syrup kiss. It easily one of our most complex beers to date, but honestly we have just been enjoying this one for the nice warm hug that it is.

Power Glove takes the form of a Hazy IPA, brewed with all the latest research and technology plus a little blast from the past. Citra, Cryo Citra and Mega-Motueka; this combo is absolutely electric with citrus and tropical fruit flavours.

As a teen growing up in the 80s, this place is awesome!! I have visited Calgary multiple times in the last three years and found this to be a go to! Christmas boasts a Home Alone theme that makes the stay exceptionally fun. Nero's Pizza is amazing - Magnum Pie is our go to with the pepperoni as a new fav. Cool vibe and always outstanding staff make this worth your time. Family friendly as well!

We enjoyed a little afternoon session at 88 today. It was our first time visiting the brewery, although we've had experience with some of their beers. They were just prepping the patio, so we had the whole thing to ourselves for the first part of our visit. This brewery has a hop focused lineup, and they have an impressive arsenal of beers to showcase. We ordered the Hammer Pants (West Coast Pale Ale) Night Gallery (Hazy Pale Ale) and Personal Best (Hazy Pale Ale), along with the Hungry Eyes pizza. I really enjoyed the beers! Night Gallery has been a personal fav for awhile, with a sly combination of stone fruits with a citrus background. The beer slaps as a semi-seasonable beer while also delivering on all the luscious parts of hops. Personal Best (Hazy Pale 3.5%) really took me by surprise. It was a light alcohol beer on list, but packed a lot of visual haze, flavour and aroma. I mentioned it was like a super ripe pear, while somehow still having that hop bitterness to balance the sweetness. It was extraordinary, and I crave it for a future beer crushing session. (Please send me this beer 88!) We had the Hungry Eyes pizza for lunch. The crust was in fact fluffy, and the edges and bottom were in fact crispy, as was expected. The topping was reasonably generous. This pizza was actually tasty- meaty, cheesy and had great texture. Bravo. Our visit was short. We were here for a good time, not a long time. We hope to come back to try a couple more beers and menu items. Cheers 88, and thank you Alex and the other staff for a great patio session!

This is our favourite microbrewery. We have tried many of their beers and have not found one we didn't enjoy. This place has such a vibe: amazing beers, cool merch, and friendly staff. You can order pizza from Portland Pizza, which operates from this location (at the time of writing this). Their pizza was incredible and nothing like what we had ever tried. So unique. We would highly recommend this place.

Probably one of the coolest breweries I've ever been to. The atmosphere and vibes were spot on and the food and drinks were awesome. Definitely get the pizza if you go here - it is a life changing experience and by far the best pizza I've ever had. They had a ton of beers on tap to choose from, and also had other drinks like lemonade on tap.

Easily accessible off the Blackfoot Trail, this brewery is a great stop for the brewery enthusiast. They have a great selection of tasty beers, insane pizza and a cool, retro eighties vibe. Check it out!