Ins Glas ergießt sich ein bernsteinfarbenes Bier mit schöner beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch wunderbar nach tropischen Früchten, sehr malzig fruchtig, Karamell. Geschmack sehr hopfig, kräftig malzig, leicht bitter, tropische Früchte.

355ml bottle [7.0% abv]. Clear, orangey, deep golden colour with average, frothy to creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Cleaned, piney, hoppy aroma, hints of orange zest, a sweaty, purulence-like touch of resin. Taste is dry, bitter hoppy, slightly astringent, piney, dry caramel malty basis; background-ish cheesy, sweaty, purulence-like resin touch. Crisp bitter hoppy, cleaned, engineered and sophisticated to the extreme, absolutely pushed to the limits of this California style IPA ideal and definitely one of the best examples thereof known to me. I can see the demand behind this ideal, but would personally still prefer the direction driven by, e.g., The Kernel, exploring hop characteristics in a more dirty, contingent, less controlled way, thereby exposing explicit fruity hop notes in well-nigh unrivalled quality.

Tap at Black Door, Helsinki. Colour is clear orange with small white. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, pine, hops and malts.

I’ve always had this in a pint glass.
The appearance was always a nice somewhat hazy golden transparent color with a decent one and a half fingered white foamy head that dissipated at a nice pace and left some nice somewhat foamy clingy lacing.
The smell was a bit earthy and dry bitter to sweet citrus hops. Honestly, I kinda thought it was somewhat like those sweet citrusy hops were covered by malts and combined in the boil. Still, I liked it for the most part.
The taste was balanced through the hops and malts adequately and showed a decent bitter to sweet aftertaste that lead into a somewhat dry finish.
On the palate, it sat about a light to medium with a nice sessionable aspect leading my taste buds onward and enthused to try a bit more of this wonderful brew coating my mouth and tongue.
Overall, first Ballast Point beer, and I say well done and more than worthy of having again.

(Bottle) Clear amber with no head. Pleasant pine and citrus aroma. Medium body with light carbonation. Nicely balanced flavours at the start with gentle caramel and citrus, then the hops start to steadily build more aggressive tastes for a good bitter finish. A nice IPA with good hoppy bitterness, but not over the top.

Can, picked up at Antenna America in December & served in a tulip type glass. Crazy gusher of a can pouring a clear light copper with a BIG thick head of beige foam. The aroma is piney, floral, slightly earthy/spicy, very very nice stuff. Medium-bodied with a smooth palate the taste is bitter pine, earthy then crackers before veering back to a mouth-puckering bitterness with just a touch of citrus like grapefruit pith in the aftertaste. Very strong beautiful hop bouquet but the taste is slightly less complex. A really solid IPA nonetheless.

On tap at the Brass Tap RR. Pours a clear deep amber with a small white head. Large floral hop nose with citrus and pine. Nice and bitter from start to long dry finish. Medium mouth with average carbonation.