 Welcome to another episode of brutal battle beer break. The beer I'm about to try right now is by brewery called pipe works brewing company They're out of Chicago, Illinois It's actually the glass I have that I've been tasting everything out of is a pipe works glass And one of the great things about pipe works on their bottles Well, first, I'll show you what it is. It's called something hoppy this way comes price shouldn't be a big surprise It's a hoppy beer big surprise It's an Imperial IPA If everyone could see that another thing about this brewery is they usually have really cool labels So as you can see it's 10% too and Every Imperial IPA by them that I've had is 10% they do a Line called the ninja beers and it's like Centennial Ninja Simcoe Ninja It'll just be whatever hop and it's like a single hop IPA our Imperial IPA and I've had the Centennial on the Simcoe and they're really really good So I'm hoping this will be just as good or better. Who knows but one of the great things here as you can see down here They put batch numbers and if you can see it right there. They put batch numbers Which is really useful for them in this sense that one time I actually got one of their beers It was infected it was their hyper dog and as soon as I opened it It just gushed all over the place and it was a mess So I contacted them about it and that's actually why they sent me this glass to make up for it So great customer service But also they asked you know what batch number was on the bottle so that they could check and see if other bottles had been Infected so great to do the batch and bottle numbers. So good job. All right, I'm ready to get into this Love me some Imperial IPA so Oh man, it looks very red just come around that red orange just coming out Very clear though if you can see, you know, there's there's not any sediment in there It's definitely been filtered. Well a lot of bubbles coming up from the bottom Significant head to it too. So there should be some good aromas Coming to my nose how very orgy Orange grapefruit Mmm, it's got a resinous scent to it, you know, like the really deep like hop oil scent Yeah, it just smells really kind of like sticky and very resinous It's citrusy. It's just kind of like a very deep Deep flavored orange, you know, not like real light and refreshing type orange, but like maybe an orange that sat around for a little bit so some of the It's set set around cut open for a little bit So some of the like water has kind of seeped out of it evaporated out of the actual fruit and it Is more of like a concentrated, you know, sweetness to it more juice. Oh Man Definitely perceiving Some serious Alcohol on there. I wouldn't say 10% I'd say I Could pin it somewhere around like nine eight and a half somewhere in there so it's covered up kind of well, but You definitely really taste that alcohol as soon as you put it in your mouth a bit of a piney-ness to it Definitely getting the citrus too, but the piney-ness is kind of upfront a very resiny tasting. It's got a really Heavy mouth feel to it too. So, you know, we know saying I was smelling. There was like real resiny It's it smelled like it would be thick and kind of like sticky and it is You know, you almost have to chew it kind of but I like that in Imperial IPA's I Think I would kind of like the alcohol to be maybe a little bit less But it's still not bad But the flavors pretty good, you know, the pine isn't real crazy if anybody listens to the podcast brutal battle by the way They know I'm not huge on IPA's with pine But when it's done, right, I'm okay with it and this is a beer where the pine is not bad. It's actually pretty good It's definitely kept in check like those deeper Citrusy flavors It's good got a little bit of a hey note to it as well though So more of like malt kind of showing through then you typically think We have very resiny piney little bit citrus to it pretty good beer. I'm just gonna sip on this. I've got a Fantasy hockey draft coming up. So this is going to be my beer of choice for when I'm drafting See if there's anything interesting that needs to be said on here. It does say that it's Made with Columbus Cascade and sriracha ace hops just so everyone knows so There you have it. Something hoppy hoppy this way comes by pipeworks brewing company. Thank you pipeworks for the glass, too Everybody thanks for watching