Bend Brewing has been around for a while (since 1995), but this is the first bottle I've had a chance to taste. They either only recently started bottling, or we only recently started getting distribution in Portland. Either way, I'm stoked! Bottle notes: Hop Head is a seasonal imperial IPA. I want to say "holiday IPA", but there's not really anything seasonally-specific about this beer, other than the label. Pours clear orange, smells a bit piney. The taste is good; good hops, nice bitterness, the right balance of sweetness... some biscuit. I was surprised that this beer had as high of an ABV as it did -- it certainly didn't taste like an imperial. Very smooth. Very drinkable. But, alas... Oregon is a state replete with IPAs. It's hard to stand out or be original, and Hop Head suffers because of this. It's a little too smooth. I could've used a more assertive hops profile -- a little bit of sharpness, or bite. There's a great piney aroma, but it doesn't follow-through into the taste. As the bottle notes promised, it left me wanting more... though perhaps not in the way the copy writer intended.