6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Noelle Miller printed on the label, purple and green front to the bottle. Deep, slightly hazy golden coloured body with a nice two to three centimetre tall off-white head that stays afloat for a while. Aroma of dank and grassy hops with a light malt backbone and some subdued fruit and sweet elements that seem to exist. Medium-bodied; Strong pungent hoppy flavour at first shows some alcohol and some grain, but the grassy and very resinous hops dominate with a lighter malt backbone than expected, some mellow fruit elements and only a touch of the alcohol on the finish, but a lot of bitterness from the hops, especially. Aftertaste is dry and pungent with the hops front and centre showing the lightly pepper bite and mellow malts towards the end. Overall, a decent and very hoppy Imperial IPA that shows a good deal of hops, but no real bitterness and not much else - relatively one-dimensional. I sampled this 50 cL bottle purchased from Hop City at Krog Street Market (Inman Park) in Atlanta, Georgia a few hours ago on 31-May-2018 for US$6,49 sampled in my hotel room here in Buckhead/Atlanta, Gerogia on 31-May-2018.