Peace Tree Brewing Double IPA Seasonal - Hop Sutra

This is from the Peace Tree Brewing Company in Knoxville, Iowa.  The description on the bottle pretty much sums up this beer:  This brew is for hop huggers.  We've added over 2-1/2 times the hops of our Hop Wrangler IPA with four varieties of hops in six massive hop additions.  With over 1-1/2 times the barley of our normal beers, our grist hopper was nearly overflowing.  Fermentation with the same Belgian yeast as our Hop Wrangler IPA rounds out this bold beer.

It is very hoppy and very bold flavored.  The bottle contains the sediment of yeast.  Even leaving this in the bottle after pouring there is a strong yeasty taste.  I don't enjoy a strong yeast taste, so this beer would taste better to me if the yeast had been filtered out.

Hop Sutra - The seasonal DIPA from Peace Tree has now become "Hop Sutra" and is supposed to be available year round as I understand it.  Let's see if it seems any different.  The beer pours a glowing burnt orange, dark amber and copper in color.  There is a negligible head that is light brown.  The aroma is hoppy, lots of tropical fruit and melon, wrapped in yeast esters.  The taste is a tropical fruit salad, with sliced banana added (from the yeast).  The finish is bitter.  There is plenty of malt and it keeps the hops from going into orbit.  This is a very good beer, but as before, for my personal taste, I would prefer less yeast.  As the beer goes on, the yeast taste does fade and the tropical fruits predominate more.  All in all, a pretty damn good DIPA.

When in season...let's try this again here on July 25, 2015. The beer pours orange and amber and a bit cloudy. There is an inch of thick, off-white head. The aroma is over ripe melons, citrus, and yeast esters. The taste follows the aromas, big ripe fruit, tangy citrus, along with yeast esters. The beer drinks round, medium bodied, with a tingle of carbonation and with a bit of warming alcohol. Still nice.