My Favorite Beer

I routinely talk about most beers/breweries in the terms of them being "one of my favorites." However,  I have always said that my absolute favorite beer is 'Heavy Mettle' from Trillium. I have said before that IPAs are my favorite style and this double IPA is everything that I love in an good IPA. I love everything there is to love about this beer. I love the artwork on the can, I love the way it pours in a glass, I love the way it looks in that glass, I love the way it smells, and I love its mouthfeel. I love this beer and every time Trillium brews it and posts it to their Instagram it makes my day. 

The artwork on the can is clean and simple, the same logo that also appears on the 'Mettle' cans on the far left with the name prominently displayed in the dead center of the can. It pours into the glass almost like a nitro beer as it cascades down the glass with the head that is white as fresh snow. Its bright-yellow, hazy appearance in the glass that really showcases the dry-hopped Galaxy hop look that is a thing of pure beauty. Then when the can is rolled and the sediment at the bottom of the can is poured into the glass and gives the beer a darker, yellow hue while keeping the bright-white head. The incredibly sweet, citrus notes it gives off to entices you to take a sip like a cartoon pie on a windowsill and then that first sip. Even though it has an ABV of 9.3%  the mouthfeel is amazingly light and does not suffer from an overly heavy and boozy that most IPAs with that percentage do. The initial taste that really showcases those Galaxy hops so full of citrus with an incredibly bitter finish that can only come from the Amarillo hops that lingers on your tongue long after the beer is gone. However on that next sip you still get that full hit of Galaxy with the same light mouthfeel but the bitterness from the Amarillo, the bitterness from that previous sip, just amplifies each time. It it THE definitive pallet wrecker. 

If you like devastatingly hoppy  IPAs with a bitter finish then this is your beer. What is your favorite beer? Let me know below.