 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm going to be doing a brewery that I actually haven't done any beers by at least not on this recently kind of recently we had One that was a collaboration with this brewery, which is on Nepalo out of Stockholm, Sweden They had done a collaboration with still water called Schuma party and then ended up on one of the episodes But this will be the first strict. Well Kind of strictly on Nepalo at least their recipe This is an Imperial IPA called Fata Morgana, which I've heard very good things about but interestingly enough as I read on the back of it It was actually brewed and bottled by pub dog Which is out of Westminster, Maryland, which is not far from where I'm living right now so Very interesting that it's a Swedish beer, but it's not a Swedish beer. So It is eight percent alcohol by volume and like I said before Imperial IPA cool artwork. I like it. Good job on Nepalo Let's crack this sucker open smell it taste it all that jazz See what the color. Okay Immediately, it's it looks very very cloudy This is a nice cloudy Imperial IPA It looks very lemony It's like kind of like lemon juice actually, you know, very cloudy Straw-ish color. Whoo You want to talk about an aroma? That's an aroma. I get a lot of grapefruit a lot of grapefruit I get like a skunky hop dankness in there. I Get some candy notes. It's kind of like candy grapefruit, you know I mean grapefruits already, you know, kind of, you know, sweet itself But it's a lot more tartness like I'm smelling that tartness But I'm also smelling like it's the fruit of the grapefruit Covered in sugar because you know how sometimes you'll just you know slice a grapefruit in half and eat it You know with some sugar on it for breakfast kind of like that. Oh My gosh, this is such an amazingly rich nose It just Smacks you in the face and here's the thing. This bottle is actually still pretty cold I just pulled it out of the fridge not long ago And usually that would mean a lot of the aromas are gonna be a little clammed up and as it warms up It would get a lot more vibrant off the bat even though it's cold. It is so vibrant That is an amazing nose the grapefruit the sugariness there's a little bit of that candy quality a little bit of like a Smarties like candy smarties not Canadian smarties because they're like M&Ms, but American smarties Smells so amazing. Oh Okay It's got a decent bitterness on the end But it's a very like grapefruit rind type bitterness because I'm getting a lot of the actual grapefruit fruit in there as well I'm getting that dank Aspect to it which is giving it a little bit of kind of like a pineiness to it mmm bright citrus kind of hits up front and then it kind of Starts going down and then that's when you're getting the bitterness is building up at the same time But the bitterness is kind of medium It's like right there and right as it's building to a point where you feel like it might kind of cross a line Where it's gonna get to be too much it stops Wow really really nice beer I can't wait to see how it's gonna open up as it gets warmer If it's this cold right now, and it's this vibrant in the flavor, that's gonna be great Hmm So much grapefruit aspect Great fruit rind. There's a bit of a sugar in this to it Like I was saying like putting sugar on the grapefruit fruit for breakfast a lot of those flavors I'm Nepalo great job with this Fata Morgana Pub dog also great job with it because you know its contract brewed basically they give him a recipe and They're brewing and bottling it in Westminster, Maryland now. Here's the thing. It is on Nepalo's recipe But with pub dog actually executing it there are a lot of things that can go wrong in the brewing process And obviously they're not having things go wrong in the brewing process So great job pub dog and on Nepalo nice ass beer if anybody can get a hold of it I highly recommend it. It is definitely a Imperial IPA lovers. I Imperial IPA so thank you so much everyone for checking this out and Why don't you send me some ideas if you have any beers that you want me to go out and find out if they're good Or if they're bad or in between we can do that send me an email brutal battle podcast at gmail.com You can do it for this and say do it as a video or you can also do it for Just the audio podcast either way whatever you want to do Anyway, thank you so much and go get yourself an awesome beer drink