Very dark root-beer color. Strong perfumy vanilla or similar aroma. First taste is burnt dark chocolate liquid mixture, whew. Comes across more like 9%! I think they got the alky content wrong on this one. Not too sure for the tropical unless there is coconut flavored anise liquor in there, whew. Calming sensation or is that an alarming sensation, you know, the dizzying effects and such? Strong big nasty nellie, whew! I think vanilla and coconut now? All aged and soaked in barrels that previously held alky? Ethanol? What-ever, this probably should be in the imperial stout style; get the message? Whew, did I say whew? If you really like imperial stout, get this now before its gone! Way too much for this lager lover. If you like impy stout or strong stout, ignore my numbers. Whew!

Bottled from a tap. Dull volatile sweet hop nose. Darker pale almost iced tea in color, certainty darker than a typical pale IPA. No head with a gentle hand pour. This is my first taste of beer after the big O insertion of July 2019! Bitter sharp rude, typical IPA territory, all into place. Just like the autumn wind after the summer breeze. If you like IPA, you gottah try this volatile IPA and BTW, I'd say its a double IPA with all the viscous mouth coating abilities. Bitter biting alcoholic lick your face. Finish is bittersweet astringent eye-pee-aye. Bitter rude ass mah fah brew these IPA.

Bottled from a tap. Smell is cloying sweet, I guess that is expected. A darker beer with a creamy tan head. Taste is just as sweet, its cloying and medicinal too. Difficult stronger alky brew with some astringent backbone backing up the sweet thang. Reminds me of many poorly made domestic barley wines I've had. Makes me wonder if this would age well. Mouth coating alky brew fer sher, straight up head knocker. Yes, as the session moves thru the middle and into the finish that astringent bite just keeps on keepin on. I think I'm getting a little dizzy in the end. Not sure what to think of this stuff.

In a crowler from the source. Looks like a dark hefe. Smell is a mango, perhaps a tad of mango perfume. Taste is certainly IPA, perhaps stronger APA. A little bit of astringent bitterness kicks its head up in the middle. Difficult at times. Fruit takes the edge off this IPA. Different for a change. Hides 7% alky quite well.

Slight farmy nose, like a barn. Taste at first is typical friendly dunkel, then a little bit of astringent bitter bite settles in. It never lets you forget its a beer, in the middle, and clear to the end. Wet grassy finish.

Tap at the source. Slight sweet malty aroma with a little bit of hop perfume on the nose. Color is brownish maroon and cloudy. Initially you know this IPA by its dreaded attack on the tastebuds. Yes, a tad of astringent uncivilly is in the mix as well. Big hop bite on top of a malty red ale, quite unique. If you like IPA, ignore my numbers, its terribly on style.