Pours a hazy, amber-peach, with good-sized head. Aroma has elements of citrus and pine/spruce hops. Flavor is very citrusy, with goodly amount of pine-hop bitterness. Mouthfeel is soft. Bitter finish. Excellent beer.

Growler: Poured a nice golden/orangey color ale with a nice white foamy head. Aroma of tropical fruit with some very nice and fresh grapefruit notes. Taste is a wonderful mix of grapefruit notes with some light tropical notes. Nice presence of citrus notes with some very limited amount of bitterness. Body is about average with good carbonation. Quite a treat and glad I got a chance to try some of this.

750mL swingtop, bottled on 1/11/14, drunk 1/18/14
Extremely tight carbonation produces a compact, creamy white head, atop a pale golden body, with a slight chill-haze to it. Head is well-retained. Pretty impressive appearance given the keg to swingtop production. Would certainly expect this from a bottle-conditioned beer. Appreciate the light haziness as well; it’s not filtered but has been given enough time to clear completely.
Very strong aroma is all hoppiness...Mostly a citric IPA with navel oranges, white grapefruit and touches of lime. Perfectly attenuated malts give just a touch of honey on the end and balance the hop acids somewhat. With warming, I find tropical fruit notes; mango, pineapple and sweet lychee that add more depth to the hoppy presentation. No alcohol and most importantly no yeast stink, dirtiness or doughiness. AND no hop resin burn?? Literally not a touch of it. VERY impressive.
Flavor follows from the nose. Tons of hoppiness, flavorful and moderately bitter, but the bitterness is spicy and citric, not resinous or alcoholic. Pale malts are soft and fully attenuated, giving the hops something to sink in to. Perfect balance and the mouthfeel, thanks to the tight carbonation, is creamy and supple.
Really blown away by this stuff. Nothing flashy at all, just a wonderfully done pale ale. These guys have certainly made me a believer. The long wait-times to get their beer seem a little bit more understandable, having had this (and Julius, which is also stellar). Most impressed with the complete lack of resin burn (hop acid fatigue), yet without any sweet or thick maltiness. A study in balance.
Rerate, canned 3/10/16, drunk 3/18/16.
While this batch didn’t live up to my memory of the previous batch I had, it was mostly that the carbonation was off, not so much any aspect of the aroma or flavor. Just seemed a little loose and watery. Granted this is not a big beer, but their growlers seem to have better carbonation than their cans, more often. Really, really well-balanced beer and not flashy at all, as I remembered, with easygoing hoppiness and plenty of juiciness. While this can certainly wasn’t a 4.6, I’m going to leave the score unchanged and chalk it up to the carbonation. Will try again next back and see if this was just an anomaly.