View From The Road: Parkway Brewing’s Factory Girl Session IPA

Here’s another look at a beer in my “View From The Road” series, taking a look at a singular beer to seek out and enjoy, but nothing so rare that you have to refinance your house to buy any, or travel to the opposite coast to find it. Cheers!

While the inspiration for the name of Parkway Brewing’s newest beer “Factory Girl” may have been drawn from local journalist Beth Macy’s new book Factory Man, the image the name implies, perfectly reinforced by the Rosie the Riveter style artwork on the bottle, stands on its own as a no less than perfect description for the actual beer. Macy’s main character, as well as Rosie, are straightforward, got-a job-to-do kind of individuals, two traits you could certainly also use to describe Factory Girl. After all, any “session IPA” is built with leanness in mind, brewed to do one not so easy but basic job – satisfy the most die-hard fan of hop forward beers without saturating them on the alcohol content, so as to keep them upright for the next round

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