This is another one of those 'more hops is better' type small brews. It advertises three kinds of hops and three kinds of malts. The smell is pretty much straight hops.
The taste is quite different from the typical 'more hops is better' beers though. This is the kind of thing that I like. The hops are there to balance out the rest of the beer. The malts add an interesting set of flavors, none of them strong enough to overpower the other two. I'm not even sure what kinds, but I suspect that each of the malts has been toasted differently to help add different flavors to each. The hops are present, but they don't add much power to the taste until the aftertaste. I can't differentiate between the three different kinds of hops, I'm not THAT much of a dedicated snob.
Yet.
But whatever flavors they impart, like the malts none of the flavors overpower the others.
This is a good small brew. They're not trying too hard to be the hoppiest or the strongest, they're just trying to make a good, well balanced beer. And they succeeded. I give this one a definite thumbs up, and it may just convert a hop over-enthusiast into someone who can appreciate a beer that has a lot of hops, but uses them to balance the flavor rather than overpower it.
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