From 2017 Michigan Brewer’s Guild Summer Beer Festival sample.
4 out of 5 stars.
Category Archives: Imperial IPA
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.
Short’s Superfluid
Nice strong sweet hop aroma. Refreshing crisp hop bite that’s quite juicy, and then almost honey-like. Finishes with a nice clean grain flavor with a honey flavor. Very slight hop lingering at the end. Very refreshing and really excites multiple taste buds.
There was a noticeable layer of particulate inside the bottle, which I swirled up and poured into my glass while pouring it.
5 out of 5 stars.
Short’s Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Nice sweet hop aroma. Fresh hop sweetness, fairly smooth with a slight edge. Mild lingering hop flavor, that transitions to a nice clean grain flavor. Very good.
5 out of 5 stars.
Founders Re Dank Ulous
Nice aroma mix of hop bitterness and some sweetness. Taste is even-handed with a gold balance of hops and sweet malt. Finishes slightly crisp with an intertwining of hop bitterness and malt sweetness- neither one too powerful.
4.5 out of 5 stars.
Milwaukee Brewing Hop Freak
Faintly sweet aroma. Full flavor sweetness with a slight harsh edge. I suppose I can taste some herbal tea flavors on there. Somewhat resinous aftertaste that fades out.
3 out of 5 stars.
