8.3

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

32oz crowler fill from Stone Liberty Station pours with a clear deep gold colored body that supports a modest white head of foam. The aroma offers up a blend of grapefruit and pineapple and then moving into pine tree like hoppiness. The taste delivers both bitter hop and juicy hop flavor grapefruit, pineapple and orange marmalade. The hop bitterness is affirmed to midway by a growing pine hop bitterness that peaks just as the big ABV starts warming your innards. It's not working as well as it should as it seems to have a bit of sweet fruity esters that might just be the hops, but, here we are. It's a little like enjoying a really good IIIPA and also chewing on a fig. Solid sipper nonetheless.