Dead Soldier
Hooker Hop Meadow IPA
Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
16 Tobey Road
Bloomfield, CT USA
Est. 2006
www.hookerbeer.com
Brain Damage Quotient = 6.5 % ABV
Fluid Oz. = 12.0
Postmortem Brew Review
Clear amber brown color.
Floral hoppy nose with just a hint of malt.
Long lasting head that is tightly bubbled.
Ringed lace down the glass.
Medium hops burn; very well balanced with malt.
Medium mouth feel.
Grim Reaper's Eulogy
I was looking for something different and chose from the "New Arrivals" at my local watering hole. An IPA is always in order, so I asked for the Hooker behind the glass fridge door. No, not that kind of hooker...it turns out this beer is from my old home state of Connecticut and named after none other than the Puritan Rev. Thomas Hooker.
Well now, that makes the second surprise brewery find in a month coming out of CT. I might not have left the state had these couple of breweries opened sooner, rather than later. At least they are exported to my new home in the south and that works out fine. The beer is a fine IPA with a unique hop flavor that appealed to me. I found it was on or above par with a lot of other IPA's in the marketplace.
Huzzah for the home boys of Connecticut! Keep up the fine work and keep shipping it my way.
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