Hara'punk Son Of A Bitch Imperial IPA
BREW!Studio

On tap. Orange color with medium haze. Aroma has sweet orange notes and resiny hops. Taste is sweet at first, quite astringent, resiny with some fermented fruit note on the finish. Very light bitterness on the aftertaste. Medium body and carbonation.

Here we go.
I had the fortune to drink this on tap at Kandalló Pub in BP. At that time this beer just K.O.'d me out, as it was immensely hoppy and fresh, the first ever Imperial IPA I had in Hungary. What's even more, its taste was far from the "normal" double IPA's - it was something more raw, more weedy, more astonishing. It was simply amazing.
The next day I went back, wanting to buy the beer bottled to go - to find it sold out.
Had no other choice but to research and contacted the brewer himself who was kind enough to keep me posted about the next batch that was supposed to hit the - STORES, yes, because so far they had been small, they decided to sell their beer bottled on the market.
Had to wait about 6 months until it finally came out, had someone to chase it down for me (as it was already sold out in the stores) and after much ado I was ready to taste this heavenly drink again, at last!
Or at least, that's what I thought. The beer itself was not bad though, but was far from that awesome roughness I tasted the first time. There were no wild weeds, nothing that of that sort, perhaps a bit smoothened, commercialized version of it.
Don't get me wrong, the beer was still good! Still quite intense and heavily hopped. But that first impression, that uniqueness, that intensivity, that originality was gone.
Could this be due to the commercialization? Due to the unevenness of the batches? Who knows... But I'd rather remember the first one they came out with, before it went bottled, now THAT was a real son of a bitch!