Big Time Amarillo Hopfest

Brewed by Big Time Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Cloudy amber with small head. Great C hop aroma. Lots of citrus with a little malt coming through. Oh yeah....this one is really hoppy. A little bit of chewy nug taste. Nice medium body. Sticks to the lips a little. This one is all about the hops, forget the malts.

On tap at the brewery.

Pours cloudy amber orange with a nice fluffy head. The aroma is divine, a piney, citric wonderment of Amarillo hops.

The flavor - well, let’s not pretend that this is a complex or subtle beer. It’s not. It’s hop juice, and I mean than in a good way. This one is plain and simple a showcase for the hops, and with lovely hops like these, that actually works quite well. I pick up a bit too much alcohol and resin in the flavor (and the malts are hiding like scared fieldmice) but the hops come through with more big juicy flavor than bitterness, despite the fact that this is not a particularly sweet IPA. On the whole it works very well, and makes me glad to work just a few blocks from the Big TIme so that I can sample this sort of thing regularly.