wildly

There's no white Christmas around here, but maybe no wet one either.  Good temperatures for walking and window shopping and pretending we have enough room in our houses and lives for the shiny things they make us want.  And after a good tour of the neighborhood, a little beer seems to be called for.  The can is colorful, wild, vibrant, so not what you expect for a black beer, and indeed it is another IPA.  It's a new brewery for me, though, so that's exciting.  Valkiria IPA is also trying to be an exciting name.  Blot Craft Beer seems to be playing up a northern connection, and they are north of Madrid, but Vikings they aren't quite.  It appears they have a restaurant in Andorra, although the beer was brewed in Barcelona.  I guess it has to count as a Spanish beer, then.

Once again, a typical IPA color and aroma, golden and fruity.  This one does have a lot of tropical sensation to it, and very little pine or bitter.  The flavor is smooth and sweet, very much a modern IPA.  It's a bright and happy beer, very well-made, very pleasant to drink.  Not very heavy or sticky, barely any aftertaste, so it's one of the cleaner IPAs.  It stays very constant and light in taste and consistency, the kind of beer that you would hope to have with a meal.  Maybe Andorra should go on the list of places to see.