 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break. I'm going to be doing a beer from a brewery But I've been very much anticipating trying any of their beer is alpine beer company out of alpine, California Small production relatively really, you know local distribution out in California I don't think they go outside of the state yet But they were purchased by Green Flash at one point So maybe they will grow and their distribution will grow at some point But this is compliments of Carlos Guerrero. Thank you very much Carlos. I do appreciate it This is the duet West Coast IPA by alpine. You can see right there Well, it's a nice architecture on there for you. It is a seven percent IPA So see Probably will look exactly like an IPA when I pour it It's a decent amount of head already forming from the pour Yeah decent amount of head Super filtered some nice bubbles coming off the bottom Very orange, you can see right through it pretty much. It's got a nice white head like I was saying as I was pouring it It's a lot of floral notes in there a lot of citrus very west coast IPA like a Little bit of like an earthy spiciness in there as well But that's kind of slight towards the end. I'm getting a bunch of like orange Mango notes Smells really good. There's there's a touch of a honey note in the nose as well. Actually The more I keep sniffing some orange peel as well Smells really good. It smells very vibrant. It smells substantial like a kind of typical West Coast IPA But it smells very clean as well. It doesn't smell like there's a ton of malt backing it up But an okay amount of malt Let's taste it Tastes a lot like hop oil If you know what hop oil is like, you know, just think pure concentrated hops and it's got a lot of that flavor to it Citrusy It's got a lot of those floral kind of grassy aspects to it as well Very clean the way it finishes it almost kind of leaves your palate somewhat neutral You have a little bit of lingering bitterness, but it's barely there Mouth feels pretty medium Not a ton of, you know, multi-presence for that, you know, thicker mouth feel in there It's it's pretty light like light media medium light, you know, something like that This is really easy to drink IPA a very tasty IPA I can see why everybody wants some of it That is nice very nice I'm getting a little bit of that kind of earthy spice to it as well A little bit on the finish a lot citrus up front than the earthy spiciness. It's good Let me see Amarillo and Simcoe hops Well, that makes sense because I feel like Simcoe is kind of where that earthy spiciness kind of was coming from so makes sense other than that nothing else all that Important off the label, but hey Alpine beer company highly lauded Rightfully so nice IPA if anyone can get it out there. I recommend it if you can't Maybe eventually you'll be able to so anyway, thanks for checking this out If there are any beers that you want to see me try on this or hear me try on the podcast You can go ahead and send an email make some suggestions brutal battle podcast at gmail.com All suggestions are welcome Carlos Guerrero, thank you again for this duet. I'm going to share this with the wife. She'll be very excited Goes well with dinner having jimmy jones subs What more can you want than a west coast IPA with jimmy jones? Anyway, thanks everyone for checking out Go get yourself an awesome beer