 For this episode of brutal battle beer break. We are going to be trying an IPA as people know IPA is one of my favorite styles Love love hops. This one is actually from a brewery. I've never had before this was sent in by Danny Miller Danny short for Danielle. So thank you Danny This one is by 101 North Brewing Company out of Petaluma, California, which Petaluma if that sounds familiar to anyone That's because that's where a lag Anita's is from as well This is an IPA of theirs called heroin IPA not the drug, but the hero female Heroin looks pretty cool. It's very superhero ask, which I think is pretty awesome great artwork on it The IPA is 7.2% alcohol by volume pretty typical for an IPA Let's go ahead and smell this oh Oh Now there's some of the packing material shoved up under the cap. So I got a little bit of a surprise as a bunch of packing Styrofoam Shot out when I opened it up wasn't really expecting that one. I still got pieces on here All right. Thanks for the surprise Danny poor this so this one is Is Nice white head to it. It's very kind of deep amber coloration to it if you can see that Nice deep amber smells hoppy obviously But there's a decent amount of malt at the end of the hops It's actually smells kind of like Kind of smells closer to like how a double IPA gets with like it just smells hardier a little more resinous It's more of like a deep kind of citrus scent to it There's a little bit of honey note on the end of it as well. It's kind of like You know like some um orange orange peel with the orange fruit attached as well Hop oil resin and it definitely on the nose finishes like honey So I don't know if it's kind of like dyed down hops or what on that but and then there's some malt finish on the nose so See if it tastes the way it's not it might be that this is a Older IPA because I mean the hoppiness is very very very subdued. Yeah, I'm Getting a lot of bitterness on the end of it But I'm not really getting much of that kind of like deep dark citrus fruit that I was Getting on the nose It's kind of a little biscuity Actually, it's got like, you know that kind of like bread-ish biscuit-y quality to it Plenty of bitterness, but I Mean a little bit of orange peel type flavor to it Not what I would expect from a west coast Brewery for as far as an IPA goes. Is it terrible? No. Do I really like it? Not really will I drink it? Yes, I will drink it It's not terrible and I have a feeling that as it warms up a little bit more I'm gonna start to get a little bit more of that kind of citrusy flavor to it and the bitterness will kind of be balanced out a Little bit more at the moment. I'm getting mainly just bitterness, but you know So anyway, uh heroin IPA by 101 North Brewing out of Petaluma, California Not a big fan of it right now But then again, it could really be just because it's kind of like an older bottle. I Looked at the date code and the date code. I can't really tell anything from it Because it's one of those that's not straightforward with the way it's written Let me see if there's any sort of Interesting it says 61 IB use international bitter units But that's about it. It doesn't have any sort of flavor notes or aroma notes or anything like that. So Wouldn't really recommend it. There are a lot better IPAs out there But Danny, I really do appreciate you sending it to me so I could try it and review it So thanks everyone. Go ahead check out the website brutal battle.com podcast brutal battles on iTunes and Stitcher You can get to me on Twitter. I am at brutal battle. It's carlin at brutal battle. I have a Facebook page Just search brutal battle. It's on there I'm on untapped you can find me. I think I'm just carlin cook on on untapped and see what I'm drinking And go ahead and send us emails If you want to if there's any beer that you want me to try and get that I can try either on one of these videos Or on the actual podcast we can try and make that happen Brutal battle podcast at gmail.com is the address. So go ahead and send us email Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out this episode