Beer Review: Church Brew Works Thunderhop IPA

Serving Type: Bottle

ABV: Six percent

Appearance: Church Brew Works Thunderhop IPA has a deep amber color in the body. There's a little amount of visible carbonation. With that, there's what can be classified as an almost explosive head with an abnormal retention rate. It makes you wait for a great amount of time in order to finish pouring out the remainder of your beer.

Smell: This beer smelled mainly of hops with a citrus undertone. The hop aroma was severely dominant. Up to this point, Thunderhop IPA has lived up to its name.

Taste: Absolutely nothing but hops. I'm not talking about a small kick of hop character. It was almost as if I was drinking a pint glass full of hop oil. My taste buds were fried to the point of not being able to detect any other possible flavor in this beer.

Overall Rating: 

I rarely give out one-mug ratings in my beer reviews. There were just too many problems, in my eyes, with this beer. The obnoxious head foamed to the point where it was over the glass and would not go down so that I could finish my pour. This is sometimes a sign of a bad batch. So, I'm hoping that was the problem. The hops were so dominant that I think that even some hop heads out there wouldn't enjoy it. Again, just hoping it's a characteristic of a bad batch.