8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

9th August 2025
Panda thanks to Wingman. A whiteish tint on this hazy orange gold beer, tiny pale cream colour head with a tiny lifespan. Light palate, mildly dry, a good fine minerally crispness. Light but smooth pale malts, a very nice level of light creamy sweetness. Hops bring crisp cooling pine. Nice bright citrus with a little Galaxy broad spectrum hop fruits and a touch of that old skool bitterness it used to bring by the truckload until they bred it out. Motueka sitting well back from the main show but bringing a nice key lime tang. Light and semi dry finish delivers touches of hop spice and bitterness. One of those DIPAs that just has a hard-to-define intrinsic rightness about it.

8

Dry, intensely hopped and tropical fruity with some herbal notes, pine, citrus, grass, vinous grapes and hints of dankness and creamy green hoppiness in the finish. Pretty nice hop bomb.

8

Thick, intensively hoppy, fruity. Citrus and green grass, herbals and earthiness. Hype is not unreal, good stuff.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 27/07/2025.
Murky orange topped with a white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is pineapple, grass, bitter orange, papaya, mandarin.
Taste comprises orange pith, grapefruit, pine resin, mandarin, papaya, light stone fruit, trace of hop spice.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy come resinous hop bitterness.
Tidy DIPA.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5