Beer Review - Bell's Hopslam

If you check out lots of beer blogs or visit other beer websites, you've probably been reading about Bell's Hopslam. This time every year, beer fanatics are abuzz about this yearly release of a delicious Imperial IPA. If you haven't tried this one yet, you really should do yourself a favor and try it.

I was lucky enough to grab some of the 2011 release and had this review of it:

The beer poured golden in color with a nice white head. The aroma was strong with pine, pine and more pine. If I was walking through a pine forest, I wouldn't have smelled more pine. However, the pine wasn't overpowering, but rather refreshing to smell. The taste was a lot of the same, pine, but with some citrus and grapefruit. Again, the flavor was far from overpowering, in fact it was quite refreshing. The beer is 10% abv, but you can't really tell with everything else going on. If you like hops, you need to try this beer.