Our Tastes-- Samuel Adams Hallertau Imperial Pilsner

KOKO, I taste (not for the 1st time) Samuel Adams Hallertau Imperial Pilsner. This amazing beer pours up a gargantuan frothy creamy micro-bubble thick head! Color is a perfectly preserved dark straw matched by a citrusy hop aroma rivaled by few. Even as the head slowly dissipates without drinking it leaves great lattice. The taste is an enormous hop explosion in the mouth. Every time I've had the beer it surprises me. "Imperial" beers were originally brewed in London in the 1800s for the Baltic trade. Increased in alcohol to survive delivery to the Russian court that the tsars enjoyed this term implied higher alcohol and hops only for travel. Used now to connotate the same yet distinguish it from its "regular" counterparts. Using 12lbs per barrel (32Cong) of Mittelfreuh, Two-row Harrington and Metcalfe, limited release, 300kcal and 8.8%abv. My opinion matters not at this point, find some and drink.