Nice sweet hop aroma. Nice bite of hops with a sweet edge. Good full hop flavor that’s tasty, but not overpowering. Nice clean malt in the aftertaste, again complimented by the hops. Awesome.
5 out of 5 stars
Category Archives: Imperial IPA
Ellison Relativity
Moderate hop citrus aroma, not too strong, balanced. Full mouth sweetness that comes in soft and ends resiny. Slight lingering sweetness of hops in aftertaste. No notable alchohol flavor, despite the 8.0% ABV. Aroma comes across much more balanced, but the flavor is pretty strong and resiny. This would be nice if it wasn’t so over the top with the resin flavor.
4 out of 5 stars.
New Holland Hoptronix
Sweet citrusy hop aroma. Crisp flavor bite, but with a resiny flavor that has some alcohol heat detectable. Gets a bit smoother on further drinks and/or as beer slightly warms.
I typically like everything on the cold side, but this one definitely needs to warm a bit to blend the flavors better and kill the resiny alcohol bite.
4 out of 5 stars.
Tapistry Heart Full of Napalm
From 2017 Michigan Brewer’s Guild Summer Beer Festival sample.
4 out of 5 stars.
Short’s The Mighty Shorse Peach IPA
From 2017 Michigan Brewer’s Guild Summer Beer Festival sample.
4 out of 5 stars.
Short’s Chief Hopper
Overly sweet sticky aroma. Nice rounded hop and malt taste. Mostly taste the hops in the aftertaste, malt up front. Overly not very exciting.
3 out of 5 stars.
Coronado Sock Knocker IPA
Strong sweet resiny aroma. Fairly clean taste of hop sweetness. No notable malt flavor. Quite a bit of hop bitter sweetness in aftertaste. Maybe a bit too much.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
Batch Brewing Burlington Oat Factory
Sweet hop aroma. Very nice hop juiciness with a hint of caramel malts. Overall gives a smooth full mouthful of nice hop flavor, fading slowly to leave a creamy malt/hop/yeast flavor. Very nice.
4.5 out of 5 stars.
Latitude 42 Party at the Moon Tower
Full sweet hop aroma. Slightly tart flavor at first, which gets replaced by malt sweetness, finally fades into hop bitterness lingering. Has a mixture of four hops I really like, but the caramel malt flavor takes away from it, as well as the lingering bitterness. Still pretty good, just maybe a bit too overwhelming.
4 out of 5 stars.
Short’s Aww Jeah
Sweet hop aroma. Sharp, strong hop bitter flavor. Mellows slightly, just enough for some malt flavor to peek in, but still a full symphony of hop flavor. Mixed hop bitterness aftertaste lingers, but pleasant, not harsh.
4.5 out of 5 stars.