Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Sample tulip at the brewery.
The appearance was a ruddy yellow color. Bar pour, no head, no lacing.
The aroma takes on some sweet grassy to bitter citrus rind-like hops. Subtle sweet and bitter pine needles.
The flavor leads the charge with the dried piney needles and develops a sly smoothness of the bitter part of those citrus rind-like hops. Nice pillowy sweet to bitter piney aftertaste moving on into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a sharp harshness conveying itself as the bitterness. Sessionable and pretty smooth for being as bitter as it comes across.
Overall, crushable APA that I would love to pound the crap out of on a hot Summer’s day.