I Hardcore You Imperial IPA

Well I'm back ranting on a brew collaboration by two of my favorite European breweries, who seem to pop one out every six months or so. Mikkeller, and BrewDog have brewed a couple of great collaboration beers I've tried, one of my favorites being the one they also collaborated with Stone in San Diego. The Imperial Stout was also very well done. This one I was really interested in because these two breweries tend to pump out beers that are closer to modern beer tastes, where if you've had any of the traditional like European IPAs and other brews have a definite different taste. Basically every tradtional brew tastes like it was brewed for a nitro tap, which is really awesome in it's own way. Only a handful of the newer breweries over there brew beers that taste closer to what alot of the American brewers are making. This collaboration is the birthing of this newer style by Mikkeller (Norway), and Brewdog (Scotland). The beer was actually brewed by the Mikkeller brewers at Brewdog, I know a little confusing and my writing probably does not help. This one is an Imperial IPA that has a nice strong hoppiness to it. Now tasting the brew it seems like it would have a strong hoppy smell to it, though actually it smells very smooth. It was not the knock down hoppy smell that you get with some Imperial IPAs. If you were comparing it to an American IPA I would say it's close to what a Supergoose would be, though slightly stronger, with a sweeter taste from a higher alcohol content. This one weighs in at about 9.5% alc. The brew was around seven dollars so it may not necessarily be worth it for the beer since it's nothing that will stand out really too much from other strong IPAs that are more readily available and much cheaper. Now the other rub to this, I picked this up at John's market in Multonomah Village in Portland OR, and I have not seen it anywhere around this area so it's not readily available it seems in this area. If you do it has kind of sea green label with like some 'Giving Tree' style illustrations of something that is an allusion to Adam & Eve if I had to judge, with the I Hardcore You scribblings in the tree. In closing argument though a stellar Imperial IPA, but may not be worth it. If you have some money burning a hole though I definitely say pick it up.