Konishiki Imperial IPA

Konishiki Imperial IPA :: Don't be afraid to step inside the ring. This Imperial IPA uses Sorachi Ace hops in every possible phase of the brew: in the mash, with first wort, a number of times throughout the boil, in an improvised hop back, and even dry-hopped with SA as well. Since the beer is a monster, and brewed with a non-native-grown Japanese hop variety, we named it Konishiki, after the Hawaiian-born, Japanese-Samoan sumo grand master. At well over 600 pounds at his peak, Konishiki was known as "the Dump Truck," the largest sumo wrestler ever and the only strictly non-native achiever of sumo's second-highest ranking. Backing up the hops in this brew is a pretty basic pale malt bill of Northwest 2-row, Munich, C-77 crystal and Cara-hell provides an ABV crowding 8%, from an OG of 19.35, with IBU somewhere in the eighties. Defer, and while you're at it, bow down, to The Lord High Executioner! Show Less