Okay, so this is the first foray that Brian and I are making into mutually blogging about beer. And for our first selection, we picked Souther Tier’s Unearthly IPA.

This is what Brian had to say about it. I drunkenly transcribed everything he said.

“It was delicious, but it lacked in those two areas, in my opinion. It was delicious, but with an air of resignation. Towards the end it was lacking the malt sweetness that should be there when the alcohol shows up. The hop taste: I mean there is some, but they seemed to have forgotten to put emphasis on the late boil hopping, what we have is bitterness and aroma, but nothing in between. Little hop flavor.

You can definitely tell they hopped the motherfucker out of it with the chinook and the cascade, but with the hop back, this styrian golding nonsense, they completely vaged out. Where as the dry hop is plenty present – you can totally tell its there in the aroma. The scent is delightful.

Otherwise it was pretty good.”

As for me, all in all, I really liked. It was kind of disappointing in how the scent was a little deceptive as to what it would taste like, but it was good. It really seemed like it would be a lot more hoppy than it tasted.

All said, it would call this really well balanced. I was super pleased with it. I will buy this again.

We agree when we give it an 8/10.

Ian!