Mouthfeel: Medium-full body, clean but with a long lingering bitterness into the finish. Clean malt with a bit of caramel and honey. 10 beer flight with multiple IPAs that are SEMI local, but still delicious. Our waiter Nathan, who was really really good, mentioned that they will start around the beginning of winter. This copper colored ale is floral, medium bodied, with a crisp. If you love heavy machinery, planes, and beer, you NEED to come here.
Alcohol spiciness as well, not hot but present. Ingredients: Water, Three malts, including a 2-row pale, Northwest Cascade Hops, and Yeast. Some citrus fruitiness (blood orange) with spicy peel and pith (pink grapefruit). Taste: Solid bitterness that’s herbal with some resinous sap and a touch of black tea. It’s got a pretty classic DIPA aroma profile without feeling “dated,” if that makes sense. Smell: Pine and candied citrus with some sweet, perfumey alcohol notes, and a big earthy streak of hop resin. Classic!Īppearance: Deep copper color, unfiltered, rocky off-white head. Styled after an English IPA but brewed with distinctly American hops. The hop bill is simple enough: Chinook, Cascade, and Centennial. As enjoyable today as it was in 93, IPA is a regional favorite and a craft beer classic. It’s classic and familiar but brings our flagship into a whole new world of hoppiness. We took our iconic IPA recipe and made some tweaks- jacking up the ABV up to a whopping 9.0% and doubling down on dry hops with two pounds per barrel. Introducing Imperial Harpoon IPA: Big & Limited Edition. We’d never change Harpoon IPA- it’s New England’s Original IPA after all- but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with it. The beer is 9% alcohol by volume with 60 IBUs the website description says: I’d posted about the release and Harpoon sent me a can to sample recently, so I figured since we’re still only a week out from December I’d get a review posted. Jennifer Glanville, a brewer for Sam Adams, explains the choice: 'While the brewers looked at a lot of fruits, they settled on the subtle addition of apricots and orange peel to provide a slight sweetness to round out the brew and to add zest that plays on the citrusy. The hops are there but only at the end of the taste. For the month of December, Boston’s Harpoon Brewery released a doubled-up version of its flagship Harpoon IPA, in what it dubs its “Big & Limited Edition” (series? one-off?): Imperial Harpoon IPA. Boston Beer put a different spin on this already innovative style with the addition of apricots. The taste is a rerun of the aroma but with a pronounced flavor of malt sweetness.
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