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Wayfinder’s Brewmaster Has Created a New Style of IPA that is Generating Both Controversy and Good Buzz Wayfinder Beer Original Cold IPA
Updated 5:30 AM
When Wayfinder Beer opened in Portland’s industrial eastside five years ago, brewmaster Kevin Davey knew for certain that he wanted to make two beers: a stellar hazy IPA and a classic, West Coast take on the style, like the kind he used to produce at Firestone Walker in California in the early 2010s.