Well if that isn't just a beautiful looking pint! A clean, clear, oak body with 2 fingers of fluffy, marshmallow head sitting on top of it. That, however, pales in comparison to the smell, which is that rich, thick, American Double IPA smell, the one that makes you want to cry a bit, the one that makes your liver want to cry a bit, the one that makes your peni... Whoa! I think I went a bit too far there! When you look at the hops though, it's hard not to get carried away a little, they've concentrated mainly on Simcoe and Columbus with little bits of Amarillo and Cascade. What a dream team! I'm a huge fan of Simcoe, it just makes certain types of IPA really hum and there's not another hop out there with quite the same earthiness, quite the same depth, quite the same POWER. The carbonation is relatively high, which means the head's sticking around for a while, which I like, it's leaving some thick, bubble bath, speckling too.
It's all very well and good looking pretty and smelling nice, I would compare this to a beautiful woman (you know how you can compare everything to a beautiful woman,) but the next question was going to be "but does it taste good?" ...No, actually I think I can get away with that. If you think that's a sordid comparison then you've got a filthy mind... You dirty birdy!
It tastes like a perverted mug of hot chocolate. The mouth feel... The texture... The way the foam feels as you drink... It's just unfair is what it is. How is anyone supposed to compete with that? The sensation of getting a smooth hoppy rush through the medium of a milky, luxurious, imperial IPA is just... As I say, it's unfair. A 9.75% beer should not drink like an artisan vanilla milkshake made from milk whose cows were being given sensuous massages at the time of milking. What you get, taste wise, is sweet malt, earthy hops and smacks of raisin. There's a hint of wood too but it is only a hint.
I didn't know who Drake's were before, but now I don't want to drink anything else. What an absolutely STUNNING beer! The really terrifying thing about this beer is that, for me to be drinking it right now, it has to have travelled from San Leandro in California to Mikkeller in Denmark to the Bottle Shop in Canterbury, that's nearly an 8000 mile trip for a liquid that, traditionally, does NOT travel well at all.
I've got to try this from the source! I bet it's like crack if crack was made of happy thoughts and sunshine.
Food Suggestion: Food? FOOD?! Must you eat at a time like this?! Fine! Blue cheese, crackers, caramelised onion chutney (or fig) and a bit of celery... But don't go mad on it, ok? You've got beer to drink.
Drink this if you like: Similar in flavour to Green Bullet by Green Flash but the feel of it is much more akin to a really luxurious milk stout... I can't think of one. Lugene! That'll do... Doesn't quite do the beer justice but it'll do.
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