Bottle from a 7 11 in Kittery Slightly hazy deep yellow with a frothy white head that persists. Big juicy fruity earthy pine and resin with some faint bready malt back there somewhere. Lightly grassy and toasty on the flavor with all of the tastes I expected from the aroma. A hint more malt flavor than I expected though. Great drinker, in fact I emptied the glass in record time.

Pours slightly hazy gold into a Sam glass. Bright white head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Yeast, caramel and tropical fruit aromas. Dry and soft with passionfruit, yeast and citrus front to back. Lasting pith finish.

Bottle from Top Hops NYC. Pours hazy gold with a decent white head. The nose is soft, juicy, clean, pine needles, biscuit, pineapple, dankness and grassy notes. The taste is crisp, clean, bitter, pine needles, grapefruit, lemon sherbet, minerals, cracker, light biscuit and pine needles with a bone-dry finish. Light body and fine, prickly carbonation. Well-rounded, crushable and refreshing. Tasty.

Bottle at poker. hazy yellow orange. nose is great topical fruits touch of bubblegum. tastes of peach, mango, pineapple, lemons, some pine. slight bitterness touch watery. very good session but doesn’t touch the Maine Beer I greatness

Bottled 5/29/15, from the brewery, drunk 6/22/15
Big pine aroma right out of the gate, but it’s highly pleasant and combines with mango, pineapple and dry citrus with bare, very well-attenuated cracker-like malts in the background. Juicy and yet very dry, with no blandness from yeast or hop particulate nor any huskiness from the grain. No alcohol noted, nor flaws.
Diving in to it, it’s zesty and tangy, with a big tangerine and unripened peach flavor that is flavorful yet dosent overpower the very light maltiness present. I do get a bit of b vitamin and some popcorn-like astringency, unfortunately, but it’s fairly minor and these hops are so delicious that it’s hard to complain. Lemons, limes, cherries, and a good measure of pine bitterness, but it trails off before it has a chance to fatigue the palate, thankfully. Very, very dry, perhaps a touch too much so? With tight carbonation and a lightly grainy texture. No alcohol noted, of course. Sticking my nose back in the snifter, after some more warming, I think I do actually get a little bit of the darjeeling aroma that people have mentioned, but that’s not really surprising, both being a very aromatic, citrusy, dried leaf. The beer definitely improves with warming, gaining some sweetness, yet also more pine acidity from the simcoe.
Minimally hazy, pale, white-gold body with some light peach tints and a good-sized white head that fades to cover.
Nicely assertive session IPA. Maybe a bit too heavy-handed with the simcoe and some minor astringency problems on the finish, but the hops are complex and interesting in both the nose and flavor.

Bottled on 05/29/15.
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a ruddy to hazy yellow color with light streams of carbonation seen rising at a moderate pace. About a two finger white foamy head dissipates within less than about forty seconds leaving a light lingering semi-sliding lacing.
The smell starts off with a sharp mango, orange and grapefruit leading into a sweet refreshing crisp grassiness.
The taste combines and revolves around the citrus and tropical notes to sweeten and make crisp. There’s no aftertaste but it does have a quick tropical to citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonated nicely as an AIPA, the harshness from the bitterness is there but refined nicely.
Overall, Maine Beer Company did an excellent job of making a session AIPA. Definitely one to have again.

500 ml bottle purchased at 7-11, Kittery. With a bottle date of 5-29-15. Color has a haze with a bright yellow hue. Aroma is grapefruits, mango, and a moderate level of fresh cut grass.

The base has light grain with a good level of fruit and grass. The bitterness is on the mild side and more grassy then fruity. Mouthfeel is juicy with grapefruits and orange pith. Honestly it reminds me of a scaled back Dinner. If you can; grab this soon otherwise I feel like the greatness of this session will fade very quickly. On the higher end for a session IPA.