 Welcome to this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Brick. This time around I'm going to be trying a beer by a brewery called Ten Barrel Brewing. I haven't had any of their stuff on the podcast or on this segment on YouTube, but Ten Barrel Brewing is out of Bend, Oregon, which for people who aren't familiar, Oregon has a lot of very highly respected breweries and there are tons of breweries in Oregon as a state. They even have like small neighborhood breweries. Ten Barrel isn't a small neighborhood brewery, but it's also not really all that big, so I know that their distribution isn't crazy large. Anyway, I'm going to be trying their Apocalypse IPA. I looked and there are really no notes on this, you know, which is kind of like the basic information on the beer because it's from the West Coast. It's an IPA. I mean, I'm going to assume it's going to be very citrusy hoppy. So let's go ahead and get into this. Oh, and also so people know the majority of the time what I'm going to be tasting on here you can probably assume is going to be hoppy stuff because this is just kind of a show for whatever I'm, you know, tasting in my personal life and, you know, hoppy things are my go-to. So that's typically what it's going to be. A lot of head on the pour, so there's a lot of carbonation. The bubbles are, and the bubbles are really forming on the bottom of the glass. I don't know if you can really, yeah, you can definitely see that. Very orange, looks pretty clear and kind of cloudy, but it's very orange, very nice looking. Big white head to it. See, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of, smells kind of pretty resinous, like orange peel in there, orange fruit. So, so orangey and like tangerine, there's a lot of tangerine in there too. Not getting the tropical kind of notes that you can get on some, you know, like no guava, no grapefruit. Actually a little bit of grapefruit. Sorry, I take that back. Tangerine, orange, grapefruit, with a little bit of peel in there as well because I'm not, I'm smelling a little bit bitterness but not a ton. I'm hoping that that's what the flavor is going to be like. A nice big juicy citrusy IPA. Yeah, very juicy. A lot of that orange and tangerine coming through, a little bit of grapefruitiness, and then it just kind of devolves a little bit into some bitterness, but the bitterness isn't crazy. It's really what you would expect. It's an appropriate level for this type of beer. Very West Coast style. I'd expect nothing less, you know, from the smell to the flavor. And I'm going to be honest, this is one of those beers that it pretty much tastes the way it smells. And you get a lot of beers out there that, you know, they smell one way and then you taste them and you're like, it doesn't taste anything like the way it smells. And that's, that's usually a big let down. So in this case, this one's pretty much right on. It's advertising what it is. Mmm, that's a good juicy IPA with just enough bitterness on the end to, you know, make it serious. So yep, out of Bend, Oregon. Once again, Ten Barrel Brewing Company. The only extra information on this, 6.8% alcohol by volume. So very exciting, exciting stuff. I have another Ten Barrel beer that we'll be doing probably relatively soon within the next few weeks for this. This is a Sunday just hanging out, doing what I call my Sunday Funday, which is I try to mandate that I drink at least a 22 ounce on Sunday because as my wife says, I have way too much beer around here, a lot of 22. So I got to work that stuff down. So I'm being diligent, trying to do my job. I'm about to start watching a movie too. I'm going to put on 1956 film called Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which we're doing for a movie podcast that we do. So here's a plug for that. Check out Carlin and Jordan's most excellent movie night on iTunes. And check out the Brutal Battle podcast if you're checking this out and you don't know what Brutal Battle is really. Brutal Battle, B-R-E-W-T-A-L Battle. Find it on iTunes, Stitcher, or just the website BrutalBattle.com. And for Carlin and Jordan's most excellent movie night, just mostexcellentmovienight.com. Anyway, thanks so much for taking a look at this. Cheers to you all. Go out and have a nice beer for yourself.