 This episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break is dedicated to a one Douglas Smiley and another one Oliver Gray. Two individuals that do not believe that video reviews of beers are good things, but hopefully I can prove that to you that they are terrible in fact. So here's my best example of, yeah, a terrible beer review. No, actually, this is a really good beer. It's one I've had. It's been a long time since I've had this beer for maybe about a year or so. This one is Outcast IPA by Crux Firmation Project. I gotta find this. Yeah, okay. I thought so. Out of Bend, Oregon is where they're from. They don't distribute much. I think they're just inside Oregon, and I don't even think they distribute to all of Oregon. I think the majority of the time you actually have to get their stuff from the actual brewery, and I don't think they bottle a whole lot. I've gotten this from my connection up there, Emily Bowling. So thank you very much to Emily Bowling. This is the second time she's gotten me one of these beers because the first time I remember enjoying it quite a bit. Anyway, Outcast IPA by Crux Firmation Project. They do a really great job with their labels. Very interesting, cool stuff. If you can see, obviously, it says Outcast IPA and how they have this kind of cut out here. Really, really interesting. My wife is a big fan of these. Anyway, the IPA is 8%, and it's 60 IBU, apparently. Go ahead and taste this. Look at it, smell it, taste it, all that. That's what I do, Doug and Oliver. Do you go by Doug? I don't know if you go by Doug. I won't call you Doug. Anyway, here we go. Oh, plenty of carbonation as I'm pouring it, getting some nice head to it already. It's not gonna make it hard to get the aromatics, which makes me excited. As I expected, very orange-ish beer. Pretty see-through. It doesn't look like it's been left with a whole lot of sediment or anything, although that could be sitting on the bottom. It doesn't appear so from that. But anyway, smells kind of like I remember it. Got a nice floral note to it. Very citrusy, but it's got this kind of nice, caramel-y finish. It's like a mixture of a very juicy tart orange with some caramel notes attached to the end of that smell. It smells really good. Super hoppy, just hot oil, crazy. It's extremely vibrant. This is how I remember it being. It's got some mango scent in there, some a little bit of pineapple to it. Nice tropicalness. As you can see, as I'm swirling it, it's having no problems building up a gigantic head. It's about how I remember it. Vibrant in the flavor, basically the same as what I was getting in the aroma. Just a super large amount of hot oils to it. It's kind of grassy. It's got this finishing bitterness that's not too much. It's actually really nice and then it kind of dissipates off your palate, which gives you that kind of like orange peel flavor to it. But definitely lots of citrus to it, grassy notes and it tastes good. It's very, very vibrant. The mouth feel is pretty medium. I would expect that with 8% alcohol that it would be probably about where it is, pretty medium on the body. You take a beer like this and you make it a double IPA and it's really going to increase the body and make it even more juicy, which I would love to taste a double IPA version of this beer. Basically take it, make it a double and it would be amazing. But this is really nice. It's really in your face with the hops. The bitterness isn't too much, like I said, and it's a nice sipping IPA. Lots of flavor, so hence the sipping, you can't quite guzzle something like that. So anyway, thank you so much everyone for joining, viewing this video. Oliver and Doug, Dougie. I don't know if I'm going to call you Dougie now. Dougie, Oliver and Dougie. Hope you enjoyed hating on this video, because I know you will. Tell me how terrible it is. And Crux fermentation project, awesome stuff. This is actually the second time I'm having this beer. It's the only beer by them I've ever had, although I have their Tough Love, which is a barrel-aged stout in the basement, and I can't wait to get into that. But putting that off for now, maybe it'll be a Brutal Battle beer break thing, maybe it'll be on the actual podcast. Anyway, check out the podcast Brutal Battle at BrutalBattle.com, iTunes, Stitcher, all that jazz. Send me emails at BrutalBattle podcast at gmail.com. Let me know if there's anything specific you want to see me drink on this or if there's anything on the podcast you want me to drink and review. It's up to you, interaction. It's a good thing, right? So anyway, thank you everyone and take it easy.