 For this episode of brutal battle beer break. We're going to be looking at a beer from Nishamini Creek brewing Which is out of Croydon, Pennsylvania. I don't know if it's Croydon or Croydon. I don't know. Whatever Out of a pounder as people call it 16 ounce can And this one's an Imperial IPA. It's called the shape of hops to come And one of the things I really like about this is that it has the hops written around the top here Well first, let me show you the shape of hops to come Cool, and then you can see on the top it has written around here all the Hops the five different hops that go into it and that's Apollo newport Simcoe topaz and Citra hops I like when breweries do these kinds of things especially because on the just you know auditory podcast We've been doing a thing called hop knowledge where you know, we learn gradually about different hops. So being able to know Clearly from a label what hops are in there It's kind of fun to see if you can pick out these flavors that you've learned Certain hops will impart on beer. So that's kind of fun. Like I said, it's Imperial IPA looks like 9.5% alcohol by volume. So strong strong Pop this sucker open. I'm hoping for hoping for some Resonance dank qualities, which I'm assuming will be there. This is actually given to me to try by a listener Kyle Norman. Thank you very much Kyle for giving me this beer. He said that he thought it was a nice one. So Looking forward to giving shot Plenty ahead as I poured it because you know coming out of a can it gets a lot more air the way it flows out Very orange pretty clear a little bit of like a chill haze to it, but By and large, it's relatively clear to see through there. Very orange though. Nice coloration for an Imperial. Oh I really smell those this type of like Citra hops has like Like super fresh like grapefruity notes to it And it's really juicy smelling like super juicy Imperial IPA Some nice malt to back it up though like coming in in the end maybe a little bit of like an earthiness To finish but up front. It is just it's so juicy. It's like I'm gonna be Biting into like a juicy grapefruit some juicy oranges all mixed together From Citra sometimes you get a little bit of like a kind of a body odor type Smell to it. I don't get that. I only get like the super crazy Citrus acidic type smells that you usually get from Citra hops, but then it always a lot of times will have that BO type smell But this was blended so that well, I'm sorry not blended brood So that that note is not really coming through which is no that kind of turns me off sometimes and Sometimes when it ends up in the actual flavor even worse This smells really amazing. Oh That's nice. That's quite nice Hmm. It's got a lot of The same notes in the actual flavor as it does in the nose, you know, I'm getting that kind of grapefruit I'm getting that like extreme kind of like Citrusiness, but um, it's a little more bitter than I assumed it would be I had some very much leaving me kind of like I was chewing some of the rind of that grapefruit on the end Not a bad thing. It's still nice Pretty syrupy too Let me taste one more. Yeah, look a medium syrupeness to it Actually Not quite as as a viscous as I was thinking it was gonna end up being for 9.5 percent And smelling as you know hoppy as it smelled, you know, I would assume that's gonna be more sticky and viscous But it's a little less than I would assume. So it's kind of medium like light medium Nice beer The bitterness lingers, but it's a nice bitterness. There's a little bit of like kind of like an earthy Piney-ness that does come in a tad bit on the end but this is a very Nicely done beer all five of these hops go together in harmony and Thank you very much. Kyle Norman listener long-time listener of Kyle Norman Thanks so much for for giving me this here beer this shape of hops to come I think this is the only second thing I've had from the Chamonix Creek The other thing I had was like a coconut porter, which was also given to me by Kyle Norman So love to try more of them. So in the Chamonix Creek if you happen to see this start distributing in Maryland Please I'd like to try more of your stuff or just send me an email and you can send stuff on to the show for trying Email address also for anyone who just wants to contact me about questions comments Whatever is a brutal battle podcast at gmail.com. Thanks everyone for watching this one and stick around for others Also go back and check out the back catalog Not just of the brutal battle beer break videos, but of the actual brutal battle podcast Which is on iTunes and Stitcher as well as just on the website brutal battle comm Thanks so much and go get yourself a beer