 Thanks for joining me for another episode of brutal battle beer break Today's beer is by de chutes brewing de chutes is out of Bend, Oregon Anyone who knows much about Oregon. They have tons and tons of craft breweries And Bend, Oregon has some of the best de chutes is pretty well distributed throughout the United States And they do a lot of really good beers People have you know things like the abyss. That's a big name out there And they do a lot of barrel age stuff too. This is not one of those barrel age. I actually wish it was This one is called hop in the dark and this is six point eight percent alcohol by volume It is what they refer to as a cascading dark ale, which some people will call a black IPA So should be hoppy but multi at the same time With this it is past its best buy date. I purchased it from a place called beer mongers in Pennsylvania and When I purchased it it was past the best buy date So bad on you beer mongers, and I pay too much money for it I would caution everybody in this case. I didn't do it, but I would caution everybody check the dates on beers This is just one I really wanted to try. It's not too far out. This one says best buy August 21st, so it's less than two months outside of that. So we'll see how it is. Hopefully it's not really suffering I will show you just says Always got to show you the label hop in the dark. No, check it out. It's all dark and there's you know a Sign that says hop in the dark. Yeah on the artwork I've typically been pretty happy with the shoots offerings, so I'm hoping that this doesn't disappoint also really hoping that It's okay because of the best buy date decent amount of head when it gets poured Really comes to the surface so it should be able to you know get the aromas into your nose pretty well Coloration. Yeah sure is dark. You can see I don't know if you can tell but there's a little bit of like brown around the edges You can definitely tell from the head. It's a brownish head. So See what this is smelling like It does smell hoppy right off the bat Floral Little bit of citrus in there as well Yeah, very flowery little grass to it and the citrus I'm getting is like a very kind of like delicate light citrusy note to it It's like a little tangerine like light tangerine to it Not really smelling too much of the malt it's there kind of like on the finish of the nose But it's really kind of showcasing the hops like the extra hoppage in this style of beer Smells good okay, I Get the malt up front It's got significantly more body than what you would assume for a hoppy beer Obviously because it's a cascading in dark ale or black IPA And then I get the hops, you know, it's like the malt at first and then the hops come out and it is it's flowery It's very floral in the finish. It's not crazy though The thing is a lot of these beers Will have like significant hops to them and I feel like these hops are kind of dialed back I don't know if it's because it's on the older side But I'm definitely getting like the floral notes the grassiness a titch of the citrus it's not really a ton of citrus and Then lingering on my tongue. I do get some of the malt so there's a little bit of roastiness to it on the finish Pretty decent beer. I'm very happy that it's not like destroyed. It doesn't taste terrible because it's past its date It's prime time. Let me see if there's any information on this one Roasted malts with a hop snap is basically what they say so nothing real important as far as the flavor notes gone This sucker Decent beer I would recommend it I'd be very interested to try it when it's maybe like a month after it's bottled Maybe two months max just to see how it how different it would be like super fresh If anyone's interested in black IPAs, this isn't the best black IPA I've ever had but it is solid It's at 6.8% alcohol by volume tastes about appropriate for that. So Fine showing by the shoots not blown away, but don't hate it So I guess you can call that kind of an endorsement. Thanks everyone for watching this and please check out the podcast You can get it on iTunes and Stitcher or on the website brutal battle calm You can also send in emails if you want it for me to address on my brutal battle beer break or on the regular show Just send it to brutal battle podcast at gmail calm And if you just want to say something you want to make suggestions, whatever open to it Anyway, thank you so much and go have a good beer