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Wrestling with an Alpha Bomb

Hazy IPA

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11 to 14

11 to 14

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Wrestling with an Alpha Bomb

Alpha Bomb

Big Rig Brewery

6.6% Alcohol

Take it easy, slow and steady, Big Rig is haulin’ an Alpha Bomb. In addition to being a real bomb*, and the signature wrestling move* of “The Alpha Male” Monty Brown, the Alpha Bomb is a Big Rig Hazy IPA. I just poured one into my glass, being careful to avoid any unintended detonations. Now it’s time to determine whether it’s the Bomb or just a bomb.

Pouring yellow golden hazy, with a plentiful foam topping. A fresh hoppy fruity aroma. First swig was fizzy hoppy bitter with the fruit bringing up the rear, an interesting and different sequence, but still tasty. Grapefruit bitters make for not what I would call easy drinking but tasty and refreshing. As I progressed the fizz faded. The bitters came and went like the seasons, only much faster. A good solid hazy IPA for watching Sunday Night football from the comfy lazy boy, but I think it’s real calling is a hot weather thirst quencher and it would have rated a bit higher on the dock or deck or after taking down that damn trampoline.

 

*Editor’s Comment: An Alpha Bomb is a circular shaped anti-personnel bomb that, when dropped from level flight, gave a natural dispersion pattern. The bomb would strike the surface activating the fusing mechanism and then bounce into the air to detonate about six metres above the ground. Sounds nasty.

**Editor’s Comment: In a scoop lift power bomb an opponent is first scooped so they are horizontal across an attacking wrestler's chest. The wrestler then pushes the opponent up and turns them, so that they are sitting on the shoulders of the wrestler, before then slamming them down in a powerbomb motion. This maneuver was occasionally performed by "The Alpha Male" Monty Brown and was referred to as the Alpha Bomb. If I understand this correctly, your opponent’s sweaty privates would be in/against your face as you completed this maneuver. Sounds nasty.

Final Rating: A Lazy Boy 14 out of 20

Hazy IPA

Beer Type

11 to 14

11 to 14

Honourable Mentions

Rating

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