Keg Creek Kashmir Kush Double IPA

The Keg Creek Brewing Company is in Glenwood, Iowa. The brewery is named after a nearby creek which was originally named Five Barrel Creek for the illicit whiskey found there in the mid-1800's. This is their 8.8% ABV double India Pale Ale made with hemp seeds.

The beer pours a hazy dark amber in color. There is a short head of off-white to light tan head. The aroma is dank, hemp, with bread and bread crust underneath. The taste is sweet, bready, fruity, plums and orange, with an earthy hemp note, and a fairly bitter finish. The beer drinks smooth with tingling carbonation. This is quite good.

Surly Direct Current IPA

This 6.5% ABV India Pale Ale is from the Surly Brewing Company of Brooklyn Center (and now Minneapolis), Minnesota. 

The beer pours a lightly hazy dark golden and peach. There is a tall, thick, foaming head of white. The aroma is dank, tropical, guava, earthy, musky, fruit skins. The taste follows the aromas, very dank, some tropical, a bit of citrus on the finish. It is dry with a bitterness that starts moderate and then ramps up to tonic water levels. The beer drinks with the perfect balance of refreshing carbonation and pillowy softness.