473ml can. Minimally milky, orange golden colour with average to huge, fluffy, slowly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, pale sulphureous head. Minimally perfumed, citrusy fruity and slightly piney hoppy aroma, pale and caramel malty background, notes of grapefruit, lemon, orange. Taste is crisp, bitter, citrusy fruity and piney, minimally perfumed, hoppy, caramel and pale malty backnone with some residual sweetness, notes of grapefruit, orange peel, tangerine, some lemon, pineapple, a touch of almond, whiffs of liquorice and rubber; lingering, hoppy finish.
Oily texture, smooth, soft and greasy, simultaneously dry, even pungent palate, medium to fine, soft, mildly prickly carbonation.
As West Coast as can be, absolutely paradigmatic: clean, crisp, bitter, solid malty backbone - a cracking West Coast DIPA.