Three bottles of Deschutes Brewery‘s latest seasonal arrived some time last week while I was away: Slightly Exaggerated IPA. It’s a collaboration with Travel Oregon, which is interesting because the brewery also recently released a seasonal collabo IPA for the Deschutes County Fair. Here’s a bit from the press release:

Deschutes Brewery launches Slightly Exaggerated IPA celebrating Oregon’s breath-taking beauty, a collaboration with Travel Oregon’s Only Slightly (More) Exaggerated campaign.

Slightly Exaggerated IPA was created using the profound Sabro hop, grown in the Northwest, that has a unique quality that gives the beer an exceptional “slightly exaggerated” flavor combination of bourbon barrel, coconut and tropical notes. “It’s surprising that a hop could bring these characteristics to a beer,” said [Veronica] Vega. “We paired up the unique coconut character of Sabro with tropical hops to create something distinct from our other citrus led IPAs.”

I’ve already drank a couple of bottles of this even before I received these bottles, but I’ll take some notes on these. My (already) first impressions were that it’s a pretty nice IPA but I’ll need to look for that coconut character.