Thomas Waugh built this refreshing cocktail around an unlikely pairing that makes perfect sense in the glass: juniper-forward gin and hoppy IPA. The beer isn’t here to turn the drink into a shandy—it’s treated like a modifier, lending peppery bitterness and aromatic lift that sharpens the base spirit instead of burying it. The real trick is the pineapple: Thomas puts it at the center and frames its tropical richness with falernum’s warm spice and lemon’s snap, then finishes with a bright, bracing IPA crown. His inspiration is as casual as it is specific: afternoons in San Francisco’s Dolores Park, mixing cold beer with farmers’-market fruit (pineapple and IPA being the favorite combination). It’s picnic energy with bar-level precision.