BJ's Hopstorm IPA:
Greetings all and welcome to a day of road beers.  Since I am out making sure cities haven’t moved off the map or roads changed course, I bring you a restaurant beer and I thought a nice brew from BJ’s brew house would be best.  BJ’s is an establishment that is growing on me rather quickly; they have a good menu that is ever expanding, decent to good beers made for the restaurant and a fairly impressive guest beer selection.  Today we turn our attention to one of their in house brews and a year-round one at that: Hopstorm IPA (the bar tender told me that it was seasonal but I think he was mistaken since the website says otherwise).  The beer comes in a nice chilled glass though not so chilled that it causes the beer to foam up from the tap.  A strong nose of grapefruits and hops filters through the thick white head that dissipates to a nice thin  but still opaque layer on top of the golden colored brew.  The taste is very similar to a 90-minute IPA though I did notice the taste doesn’t stick around as long as the 90-minute.  A clean tasting beer that has a ton of hops that roll around the taste buds like a Mack truck on the front end but vanish on the back-end.  A really nice beer that surprised the heck out of me for it’s taste and boldness.  Usually these restaurant beers are very middle of the road in their flavor profile and are forgettable but this one is one worth remembering for another visit.