Jun 23, 2010

Our Tastes-- Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale

Now with it's own category, we try Stone's SSRA (for short). For me this beer is a great starter for Junk's own category. It is the "Darth Vader" of all beers that I have tried. Black as the dark side of the force, with a hop bite of the light. Thank you, Capt. HopHead for touching down on runway StoutMouth, continue your flight, climb and maintain. The nose is striking of malt with a true dichotomy of bittery, piney hop smack. 8.7%abv Black IPA originally brewed as 11th Anniversary ale. And the complexity of the beer itself has been my 1st exploration into highly hopped dark beers. Chinook, Simcoe & Amarillo to give it 90IBUs. This is a keepsie!