 This is brutal battle beer break and for the first time for this we will be trying something from spring house brewing Spring house brewing is out of Conestoga, Pennsylvania, which is close to Lancaster for anyone who's familiar with that geography Spring house. I don't think I've had anything by them that I've disliked Everything's ranged from solid to really good. So very excited about this one. This one is called Simcoe must be destroyed It is a double IPA and it does not have any sort of a BV or anything on it. So I like the label. I think they do pretty fun cartoonish labels typically you can see Mr. Simcoe hop breathing fire and destroying cities. What else would some co-ops do? Imperial IPA obviously one of my favorite styles, so I'm very excited to get into this one Labels are cool, but at the end of the day What's your beer like? You know what I mean? So let's see Very well filtered tons of big bubbles in that nice pretty present head to it very orangy in color Okay, it's got a very Fresh citrus smell to it Kind of jumps up your nose with Little grape fruitiness There's a little bit of like a bubblegum aspect. Also a little bit of a caramely note from the malts as well But very citrusy Grapefruit some orange Little bubblegum like I was saying Smells really good. It smells very very strong like it's gonna actually be Very present in the mouth feel and a little bit of viscous It's like very meaty in the nose But it doesn't smell like actual meat, obviously Meaty citrus you could say Okay, um I'm getting a little bit of a spice type characteristic to it You know some people say sometimes from hoppy beers They get a little bit of like an onion-y aspect like chive type thing I get a little bit of that and just kind of a little bit of like a earthy Hop presence spicy hop presence I do get the citrus as well It's definitely tasting The mouth feel is more present like I thought it was going to and the taste is very deep as well in that sense It's it's very much like biting into Some citrus like grapefruit, but not a whole lot of tartar sweetness to it Just a little bit of the flavor and you're getting a lot of rind So there's a decent amount of bitterness on it. I'm wondering what the ABB is on this Because I'm gonna guess it's somewhere In the eight and a half range somewhere in there Pretty bitter on the end and the bitterness is continuing to build not my favorite of their offerings By any means, but it is good and I will certainly continue to drink this It's going down actually a lot easier than you would expect an imperial IPA to do even though it is pretty Pretty substantial in the mouth feel so that's a plus for it making it pretty sessionable as far as an imperial IPA goes I was looking for a little more of that citrusy note I was getting in the nose maybe more of kind of like the caramely aspect from that backup scent from the malts Getting in the slice bit of both of those things But not as much as I was getting in the nose and I wanted more of solid beer though decent beer I'm gonna drink this bottle no problem. So If you like what you heard you can go out and try and get spring house Although you probably have to be in Pennsylvania or be in a neighboring state where you can, you know Travel into Pennsylvania with no problem because I know their distribution is not all that far at the moment But anyway, thank you very much spring house for making nice beers and thank you everyone for checking this episode out Stay tuned for the next one and until then go get yourself an awesome beer to try