This week we look at Victory Hop Devil Ale. A more balanced, but just as good.
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Hop Devil Ale
- Tonights offering to the beer Gods comes from Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, which is a little bit west of Philadelphia.
- The brewery is actually a rather new brewery, just passing the ten year old mark last year. So if you can do the math, that means it opened in 1996. The building actually used to be an old Peppridge Farm Factory.
- You can get this beer on both coasts and a fair number of states in the middle of country as well. Yeah, I am just too lazy to read all of the states. In addition, if you go to the Victory website, there is a place where you can buy it online.
- Hop Devil Ale weighs in at around 6.70% ABV, which although it isn’t as strong as last weeks beer, it is still pretty powerful.
- One of the first things you notice about this beer is the label. What Victory has done is taken a hop, which is a pine cone like object, and strapped devils horns, chin, and other devil like features on it.
- The taste is actually pretty balanced in my opinion. Now don’t get me wrong, you most certainly know that this beer has hops in it, with that bitterness, but there isn’t nearly as much citrus flavor coming through.
- I think that this is a great IPA to introduce people too. Not only does it have many of the strong characteristics of a good IPA, but it also has a little bit of malt sweetness that may help get new craft beer drinkers to come to the table.
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