Deschutes Hop Henge IPA is the opposite of Google TV

Deschutes advertises on their Stonehenge'd label that this IPA is an 'Experimental Ale.' They say this about their beer:

"Stonehenge is a mystery
Hop henge is a discovery. Our monument to hops"

What Dorks. I love it though. I don't get the whole experimental thing though. You know what was experimental for David and I recently? The Logitech Google TV - remember this entry - BeerEveryDay-Kevin Bacon.

The commercials had Kevin Bacon it, playing a guy obsessed with Kevin Bacon. Great commercials. We were stoked about the device and thought it'd change our lives, like the DVR, Turduckens or TIME COP...Negative Ghostrider.

This thing has more bugs than a Peruvian Rainforest. It turns the TV screen on and off, the sound hisses and buzzes, and the surround sound worked the first couple weeks but hasn't since. FAIL to the 10th power.


You know what doesn't fail and is unexperimentally delicious? This beer.

When you advertise something as 'experimental,' I'm thinking something wacky and wild. But this isn't the case. It's 9% alcohol and clocks in at 95 IBU's. For an IPA, the caramel malt base is fairly light and it covers the intense citrus and piney hops quite well.

This is a well rounded DIPA. Congratulations on being awesome but I'm confused on the experimental. The Hop Henge is as experimental as buying yellow onions instead of white onions at the grocery, or drinking in the shower opposed to the couch. This is a big bad DIPA and they should make it a 'testament' to hops and leave it at that. This is excellent as an homage to hops, why throw in words? Excitable. 

THE ROCK rating

Saint Arnold Texas Wheat welcomes Kevin Bacon

I arrived home to David's always delicious clam chowder and a gift from his office, Google TV. What is that contraption you ask? I'll let Kevin Bacon enlighten you:

 The last beer I brought back from Houston based brewery Saint Arnold is their "Wheat" beer. Now, I originally confused this with a hefeweizen, which it is certainly not and the wheat was so offenced by this generalization that it forced me to drop it tonight. But I have Allstate and I'm in good hands, which caught the bottle. Anywho, I know that all wheat's aren't hefe's, and I realize this fellow is a crystal-weizen, which means it is super light and crisp and what I imagine a cumulonimbus cloud tastes like.

Darth Vader "You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take her away!"

What's also fun about tonight is that we're tasting the Wheat in Hite glasses we stole from Korean BBQ last Friday night and they're the perfect size. Remember kids, sometimes petty larceny does pay. This brew would be refreshing on a summer afternoon, ARMAGEDDON rating.