 Thanks for joining me for this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break. As with the last episode, I'm sticking with the West Coast theme, specifically Oregon, another beer I received from Emily Bowling, so thank you, Emily. This one is Drop Bear IPA, 7.3% alcohol by volume. It is by Oakshire Brewing out of Eugene, Oregon, and it's with Galaxy Hops, I believe. Yes, an IPA with Galaxy Hops, and the logo under Drop Bear IPA says Hops from above from down under. So down under me, Galaxy Hops are from Australia, and there's a koala bear, and he's flying with a cigar in his mouth, obviously. What else would koala bears do? Let's check the sucker out. All right, well, it didn't explode on me, so that's a positive. Step in the right direction for this one. All right, turn that so you can see it. Nice and orange, deep orange, hazy, decent white head to it there, looking very IPA-like. Ooh, nice amount of grapefruit nose in there. A little bit of an onion, green onion character on there, though. Some caramel malt coming through on there as well, it smells nice. Mmm, smells pretty good, except for that green onion, that little tinge of green onion kind of throws you off a little bit, because you smell a lot of the really nice grapefruit notes, and then that green onion comes in right after it, and it's kind of like, mmm, I'm liking this grapefruit, and it's like, oh, but then that, it's kind of weird. But have high hopes, significantly more subdued on the flavor. There's a medium bitterness to it, I'm getting a decent amount of the caramel-y aspect of the malt. Don't get a whole lot of the Galaxy Hops to it, let me see what, no date coding on it, of course. Please date code, breweries, please date code, but it's not bad. I get a little bit of the Galaxy Hop characteristic, but it's really a lot more malty than I was expecting it would be. There's a little bit of a piney aspect in there as well, which, you know, pine's not all that bad, but when it's just like super malty, and a little bit of pine, and a little bit of, you know, citrusiness, when you're expecting the Galaxy Hops, which are very citrusy to shine, it's kind of a little bit of a let down. Once again, not a bad beer, but not a great beer. So sorry. Oakshire Brewing, I don't know if it's old or what, but date code please properly. I mean, come on. Anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out. We'll see what next episode brings, and go get yourself an awesome beer.