The Wanting Comes in Waves

473 ml can. Pours a dark amber with moderate head but with lots of fine floating particles. Aromas of pine, lemon wax, melons and bready malts. Flavors follow same with emphasis on pine. Thin.

Gold and bright, bubbly head. Lots of allium citra on the nose, light bitterness, sweet malt but not great malt. Not awful but definitely not my kind of beer.

On tap at Luppolo. Pours clear gold with a white head. Loads of allium with some some notes of pine and tangy Nelson on the nose. Flavour is dominated by allium with some crisp pine notes, a touch tangy, and a bitter grassy onion finish. It is crisp and hoppy, but damn that's a lot of Citra.

On tap at Luppolo, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has intense allium, saved a little by the nice tangy Nelson hops, with some pine, floral notes, and then more allium—damn that’s some overly pungent Citra. Flavour is very bitter and very oniony, with Citra that dominated to the point of ruining this—just way too much allium. There’s some nice Nelson in the background but it can’t rescue this from the Citra. Reasonable structure but get rid of the Citra.