A stout in every way except IBU. An India Black Ale (IBA). Our guess of what may have been shipped around the horn of Africa to stout-loving British soldiers in India. Starts with an immediate smokiness followed by the familiar bitter of the extended hops
This is technically an Imperial IPA with an estimated ABV of almost 8%. We wanted to find a "hop bomb" with character. We found this in the Galena hop. The Galena is a very intense hop that we tried to level out with copious amounts of honey