Clean malt with a bit of caramel and honey. Alcohol spiciness as well, not hot but present. ![]() Some citrus fruitiness (blood orange) with spicy peel and pith (pink grapefruit). ![]() Taste: Solid bitterness that’s herbal with some resinous sap and a touch of black tea. It’s got a pretty classic DIPA aroma profile without feeling “dated,” if that makes sense. Smell: Pine and candied citrus with some sweet, perfumey alcohol notes, and a big earthy streak of hop resin. Classic!Īppearance: Deep copper color, unfiltered, rocky off-white head. The hop bill is simple enough: Chinook, Cascade, and Centennial. It’s classic and familiar but brings our flagship into a whole new world of hoppiness. We took our iconic IPA recipe and made some tweaks- jacking up the ABV up to a whopping 9.0% and doubling down on dry hops with two pounds per barrel. Introducing Imperial Harpoon IPA: Big & Limited Edition. We’d never change Harpoon IPA- it’s New England’s Original IPA after all- but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with it. The beer is 9% alcohol by volume with 60 IBUs the website description says: I’d posted about the release and Harpoon sent me a can to sample recently, so I figured since we’re still only a week out from December I’d get a review posted. For the month of December, Boston’s Harpoon Brewery released a doubled-up version of its flagship Harpoon IPA, in what it dubs its “Big & Limited Edition” (series? one-off?): Imperial Harpoon IPA.
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