Mouthfeel: Medium-full body, clean but with a long lingering bitterness into the finish. Clean malt with a bit of caramel and honey. We took our iconic IPA recipe and made some tweaks jacking up the ABV up to a whopping 9. One adds a toasted flavor and another a malty flavor. Introducing Imperial Harpoon IPA: Big & Limited Edition. The beer has flavors and aromas of malty sweetness, hops, fruits, citrus, and earthiness, finishing smooth and bittersweet. Here’s a summary of what we covered in our IPA review: Harpoon beer is an English IPA with a 6 percent ABV. Alcohol spiciness as well, not hot but present. Harpoon says the beer is 5.9abv, 42 IBUs, 15 EBC, 15.5 plato, and is hopped with Apollo (per inquiry with the brewery yesterday) and Cascade. Harpoon is the ideal all-season beer that offers you a balanced dose of hops and malts like an IPA should.

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. Horseshoe Ale is a American IPA style beer brewed by Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall in Boston, MA. Classic!Īppearance: Deep copper color, unfiltered, rocky off-white head. The hop bill is simple enough: Chinook, Cascade, and Centennial. New Englands Original IPA As enjoyable today as it was in 93, IPA is a regional favorite and a craft beer classic. 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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