(12 oz. bottle) The Shed Brewery, Middlebury, Vt.
Pours a cloudy amber in color with some good lacing on the glass. Nice well rounded IPA. Some mild hop flavor and bouquet up front with some malt flavors at the finish. Overall, this is a very drinkable and sessionable English IPA at 6.0% abv., yet, IMHO, it lacks more hop flavors and aromas.
(12oz bottle) Great Divide Brewing Co., Denver, CO.
Pours a light brown/dark amber in color. Small oatmeal colored head. Heavy malt bouquet with a distinct malty finish. Relatively smooth which belies the 8.7% abv. Great Divide describes their Hibernation Ale as a malty, robust English style Old Ale. I’d have to say that pretty much sums it up. I found it similar in flavor to a Sam Smith’s brown ale but it is a much fuller, heavier bodied version.
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