Our Tastes-- The Incredible Hop

Another in the Fort Collins Brewery series from 2011, was their Imperial Belgian Style IPA. Pouring a a light golden pale with flattening pure white head, this one's hop aroma is cut by the whiff of alcohol and yeast! Upon first gulp, the taste as expected of any other IPA but the bitterness of the hops cuts like a knife across the middle part of the tongue and begins to linger. There is a heavy peppery zest to it and enough hop load to start swelling the ole nasal mucosa. A good beer but not great. The melding of these 2 styles, I've tried myself and anything more than an exact measure of each results in a beer to yeasty or in this case a beer too bitterly hop blown in my opinion, then again those are like elbows, most folks have a couple. 9.5%abv seems to be the standard for these beers, let you know when I get to the next one.