It’s spooky season again, and I have enjoyed the rather esoteric spookiness that this season seems to be incredibly fond of.
It has progressed from your standard issue goblins and pumpkins and skeletons to a darker, more sinister sort of fortune-telling, conjuring, slightly sepia toned witchcraft.
I just find it a lot more interesting.
So we move to the next Lazy Dog Beer Club box, featuring yet another Florida brewery. This time the brewery was Ivanhoe Park in Orlando. Interestingly enough, Brewery co-founder Glen Closson was the one who developed the artwork for this collaboration, the clearly palmistry-focused Destiny’s Hand (Double IPA, 7.5% ABV, 35 IBU).
First, I love the art. Spooky, sort of mysterious, and ever so slightly reminiscent of The Room (My absolute favorite series of mobile/VR games).
The beer inside, a Double IPA, is a bit surprising considering the partner in all of this, Melvin Brewing from Wyoming. I’ve noticed with most of their IPAs, even Double IPAs, they tend to be very approachable on the hops.
Not that they are intensely aggressive, and not that I want beers I drink to be intensely aggressive, but they aren’t intensely aggressive. Not so much for Destiny’s Hand. This is the boldest DIPA I think I’ve tried in a long time.
It’s a completely opaque, almost milky orange color, which is par for the course for the style. The aroma is blasting citrus and alpha acids which, once again, I’m used to. The flavor however is much bolder. Sure, it is dripping with sweet, juicy flavors of orange and tangerine and grapefruit, and it’s got that sort of lactose-like creamy quality that I noticed comes from a bigger DIPA, even though no lactose was added.
But it’s also very bold and dank and bitter. It’s definitely like they combined a West Coast IPA and Hazy IPA all at once. Absolutely fantastic, and I’m very happy to have seen what Ivanhoe Park was able to bring to this collaboration.
Does this mean I’m going to drink more DIPAs? Not sure. Will i try my hand a contacting dark spirits in some sort of netherrealm? Nope.
But if I do, I know what beer I’ll be drinking if I do.
Drink Florida Craft,
Dave
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