Do you figure you could be wrong....something hinky is going on....maybe you should reconsider....
Well.... Here is such a case and it's no to hard to make the call, it's just weird is all but I've got to go with what I'm getting even if it doesn't make sense.
Left Coast Brewing Hop Juice.
What is confusing me about this beer is everything written on the bottle about what this beer is supposed to be... I hardly find any of what the brewer claims to be showing up in my glass. This beer drinks like an English Ordinary Bitter to me except that it's over twice the Alcohol content of that style. As the beer warms I get some pine but cold....and I drank 80% of it cold the pine was washed out for me and I was getting was nondescript bittering hops. Maybe English hops... a little earthy.
Anyhow, the brewer says it's an IBU monster and unless I have a cold nobody told me about it's just not as aggressive as I'd expect a double IPA to be and it's not west coast style for me at all in this bottle.
It's really like an ordinary bitter that somebody screwed up by adding extra bittering hops and dumping some Sugar in to boost the Alc content. Making it a hot/alc extra hopped bitter.
On a positive note I sort of like it but it's an odd duck. This would make a good party beer where getting trashed was in the plans. It's like a session beer way to hot for session drinking.
I can't help but wonder what adding some darker "bready" malt into this beer would do for it.
Anyhow, I think it's a decent beer. It does not fill any slot or rise above enough other beers to make it into my normal rotation but it's not bad. It's out of style to my taste but hey, who's fault is that? ;)
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