Your summer six-pack sorted

We check out Behemoth’s Something Hoppy IPA

Welcome to the second beer review of this week-long craft beer series.

Now, this isn’t wine tasting so I’m not going to tell you what Behemoth’s Something Hoppy IPA smells like “on the nose” or talk about how full or half bodied it is (mostly because I don’t know any of those fancy terms people use when they want to sound smart about fermented alcoholic beverages). What I will say is that if you’re going to have a few beers in the fridge for when you get thirsty or for when mates show up unannounced, this one is it.

For a while, Behemoth’s Chur Pale Ale was my “staple” beer of choice — one could offer anyone and know they’d love it (and if they didn’t, that’d be a good way to filter out who you should be friends with).

But Something Hoppy has the reliability of Chur and then a little extra something (you guessed it: hops).

It’s incredibly easy to drink for a hoppy IPA and it’s a good beer to try if you’ve recently moved from pilsners and lagers but are still not sure about hoppier beers. It starts off fruity and has a slightly bitter aftertaste that just adds complexity to it (sorry, getting a bit wine-tasting-y over here).

It’s not going to blow your socks off but it’s not going to disappoint you either — and sometimes that’s really all you want from a beer.

Bad Behemoth beers are a mythical thing, like unicorns or well-rested parents of young children. They simply do not exist. This one is pretty middle-of-the-road for the brewery, well known for its more adventurous beers.

For the technical details, it’s made with Citra, Azacca and El Dorado hops and has an ABV of 5.9 per cent. You can buy it in handy six-packs at any half-decent bottle shop.