Topic Archives: Imperial IPA
Pontoon Brewing The Floor Is Lava reappears in August
Pontoon Brewing The Floor Is Lava makes another appearance in mid-August.
This milkshake IPA packed with strawberries, guava, and kiwi, plus vanilla & lactose milk sugar.
This tropical beer is packed with TONS of fruit, making it dangerously good for those who dare to drink.
Pontoon Brewing The Floor Is Lava will be available in again in 16-ounce cans and draft again on August 17th.
Style: Imperial IPA / Milkshake IPA (w/ Guava. Strawberries. Vanilla. Lactose.)
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft.
Latest Return: 8/17/19
11+% ABV
PIC: Beer Street Journal
Hop Hut release: Monday Night Desk Jockey Double IPA
Monday Night Desk Jockey Double IPA will be available at the the West Side Atlanta location on Friday, July 12th.
The brewery describes this release as “Citrus and pine notes on the nose. Resinous and a touch dank, and finishing with a touch of hop bitterness.”
MONDAY NIGHT BREWING TO BUILD IN BIRMINGHAM
Desk Jockey will be available at starting at 4pm at Monday Night Brewing’s original Trabert Avenue location only, in 16-ounce cans and draft.
Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft.
Debut: 7/12/19
?? ABV
Wild Leap releases ‘Coco Flamingo’ collab with Trim Tab Brewing
Wild Leap Coco Flamingo, a collaboration with Birmingham, Alabama’s Trim Tab Brewing, debuts in late June.
This is the first time these two breweries have collaborated. The base beer is a hazy double India Pale Ale, brewed with toasted coconut, tangerine, and lime.
Wild Leap Coco Flamingo will be available in Georgia by the end of June, Alabama, and Tennessee by the first week of July.
Style: Double IPA (w/ Tangerine. Lime. Toasted Coconut.)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Debut: July 2019
8% ABV
Wild Leap expands Truck Chaser series with “Bomb Pop”
Wild Leap Bomb Pop Double IPA is the second release in the brewery’s Truck Chaser Series as May winds down.
This ice cream themed series started earlier this year with Creamsicle Double IPA, brewed with orange, vanilla, and lactose. This second release is inspired by another popular ice cream of summer, the Bomb Pop. The tri-flavored popsicle was invented in Kansas City, Missouri in 1955. National Bomb Pop Day is celebrated on the last Thursday in June.
Wild Leap Bomb Pop Double IPA features the iconic “bomb” flavors of lime, cherry, and raspberry, brewed with lactose. Did they do it? They damn well did. Every sip tastes like a mind-bendingly weird blend of hops and ice cream. Seriously, your tastebuds and your brain fight each other on what this beer is until the alcohol hits your brain and stops caring and just wants more.
Available in 12-ounce cans and draft for a limited time starting the last week of May 2019.
Style: Imperial IPA (Milkshake IPA) w/ Lime. Cherry. Raspberry. Lactose.)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. Limited Release.
Debut: Late May 2019
8.1%, 49 IBUs
PIC: Beer Street Journal
Stone ReVengeful Spirit, like”drinking a ray of hoppy sunshine”
In 2017, Stone released Vengeful Spirit IPA with the intention of showing off fruit in what the brewery is best known for – IPAs. Two years later a bolder version of that beer returns.
Stone chose pineapples and Mandarin oranges that compliments the tropical Mosaic, Loral & Mandarina Bavaria hops.
Revengeful Spirit is more aggressive than the 2017 release, in both alcohol by volume, hops and citrus fruit. Consider picking up this bold pre-summer beer. The nose is heavy on oranges, and each sip bursts with trop-hops and pineapple, finishing smooth and slightly bitter. Stone struck a nice balance with real fruit in an imperial IPA without being, cloying, heavy or sticky. It’s like drinking in a ray of hoppy sunshine.
Stone ReVengeful Spirit is available nationally in 12-ounce cans, 22-ounce bottles, and draft.
Style: Imperial IPA (w/ Mandarin Oranges. Pineapples.)
Hops: Loral, Mandarina Bavaria, Mosaic
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. Seasonal Release.
Debut: May 2019
8.1% ABV
PIC: Beer Street Journal
Wild Leap Alpha Abstraction Volume 7 features new French hop
May brings the 7th edition of Wild Leap Brewing’s Alpha Abstraction Double IPA, a series hop heads should have checked out by now. The series is a blitz of everything a juicy IPA should be, mixed with a rotating cast of dank hops.
It was the 5th edition early this year that really blew us away – it’s hazy IPA done right. Late March brought the 6th edition, brewed with Lotus hops. This release features a hop most have never heard of – Barbe Rouge. The hop is native to France and boasts flavors of strawberry, blackcurrant and, cherry.
We shouldn’t have wait until the 5th release to try Wild Leap Alpha Abstraction
Wild Leap Alpha Abstraction 7 is available for a limited time in 12-ounce cans and draft.
Style: Imperial Juicy/Hazy IPA
Hops: Barbe Rouge
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. Rotating.
Debut: Early May 2019
8% ABV
Creature Comforts Cosmik Debris returns this month
Creature Comforts Cosmik Debris, a double IPA that first debuted in May 2015 makes a seasonal return this month.
Easily one of the hoppiest releases in the Athens, Georgia based brewery’s lineup, Cosmik Debris has been a fan favorite since day one. In 2016 the brewery canned the imperial IPA and updated the can artwork in 2017. (Above is the 2016 artwork.)
Cosmik Debris has a brilliant aroma from the hop profile that will lessen with age. This beer should be kept cold and consumed as fresh as possible. – Head Brewer David Stein. “
Creature Comforts Cosmic Debris will be available on draft as well as 12-ounce cans in the brewery’s taproom starting April 16th
Style: Imperial IPA
Hops: Simcoe, Idaho 7, Mosaic, Cascade Chinook
Availability: 12 oz Cans, Draft.
Next Release: April 2019
8% ABV
PIC: Beer Street Journal
