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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Alley Hop Imperial IPA if you want a bigger, more assertive pour,
Overhead if you want balance that doesn't feel heavy.
Both hit the same IBU wall at 80, but Bellazzi's extra alcohol (9.5% vs 8.2%) gives you a noticeably warmer finish and more body to push the biterness around. Overhead rides lighter, letting you taste the hop work without the booze shadow. Neither's a wrong call—just different intensity levels.
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Beer DNA
Body
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Sweetness
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Bitterness
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In words
Alley Hop Imperial IPA
Alley Hop sits in your mouth like it means business. You get that classic Imperial IPA warmth right away—the 9.5% ABV isn't hiding. The biterness is sharp and gripping, but there's decent malt backbone holding it together, so it doesn't feel thin or one-dimensional. Finishes dry with a lingering pine bite that sticks around. It's the kind of beer that demands your attention, not something you zone out on.
Overhead
Overhead has more air in it somehow—despite the same IBU count, it drinks lighter on your palate. The alcohol sits quieter at 8.2%, which lets the hop character come through cleaner without that booze warmth taking over. There's actual complexity here: citrus notes peek through the bitterness instead of getting buried under alcohol heat. It's an Imperial IPA that doesn't feel like it's trying to prove anything.
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Similarly carbonated
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Texture 55 vs 55 · Δ 0
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Only Alley Hop Imperial IPA
Shared character
Only Overhead