Brash Skankin Dirty

Brash Beers are brewed and bottled by Mercury Brewing of Ipswich, Massachusetts. This Imperial IPA is 9.0% ABV and has a whopping 124 IBU's. It was brewed in collaboration with Ska Brewing of Durango, Colorado. How awesome is the label art?

The beer pours a glowing orange, copper and amber in color. There is over an inch of thick, creamy, foamy, off-white to light brown head. The aroma is hop forward, mango and passion fruit, floral, with a bit of pine and loads of malt adding sweetness underneath the sting of the hops. The taste follows the aromas quite directly. The finish is a blistering, mouth puckering bitterness, and a spicy burn. Massive, this thing approaches a triple IPA. You have to be pretty damn brash to drink this thing!