Melcher Street - Double Dry Hopped

Bottle from Trillium. It pours hazy orange with a thick white head. The nose is soft, sweet, juicy peach, nectarine, pineapple, candied peel and honeysuckle. The taste is bitter, some dankness, grass, pine needles, spring onion, pineapple, nectarine, pepper, grapefruit peel, some alcohol, dirt/earth with a dry, dank finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Aroma is pretty spectacular. Taste is let down by the onion character imo. Still pretty impressive.

Draught at Publick House, Trillium 2nd Annviersary, 3/23/15
Deep golden-copper pour shows this isn’t a Congress Street or Fort Point malt bill. Head is medium-sized, white and moderately well-retained. Liquid is moderately hazy.
More specialty malts in this one, at least to some extent, and it shows in the nose, adding a touch of caramel and bread to the otherwise heavily fruity (cherries, oranges, ruby red grapefruit) hop assortment. No alcohol or flaws in the nose.
Surprisingly tame in the flavor department. Sweeter than I would have expected, with more residual sugar than I’d prefer, even if it does mean zero resin burn. Very low bitterness, with predominantly cherry and candied orange hop flavors with a dash of tropical fruits thrown in. Caramel and honey build up on the palate and there is very little bitterness to combat it. Eventually, all I really taste is a canned pineapple-like flavor that is heavily sweet and very off-putting. Looking at other ratings, I see mention of garlic and onions which is spot on. Was going to say it tasted "meaty" but garlic is precisely it. Oddly enough that person still gave it a 4.3! I like garlic/onion flavor in my beer less so than him/her, I guess! 7/3/6/3/11
Canned 8/31/16, drunk 9/16/16.
A much-needed rerate here and it’s funny seeing my comments for my first time trying this as being very off-put by the garlic/onion character. Not sure if my palate has grown more accustomed to it (probably) or if that batch had some older/less-desirable hops in it. Whatever the case, while I can still sometimes pick out suggestions of garlic/scallion from some of these new hop breeds, I don’t find it very overt or frequent. That being said, I still feel about the same with this as I do with the regular Melcher Street; rather sweet/muchy and overly given to over-ripe nectarine/peach. It’s a good, solid, drinkable beer, don’t get me wrong, but not up there with their best, IMHO. Malty and wheat-flour-laden texture, with fine carbonation and decent attenuation (still a bit too sweet, I think). Needs a little less pine character, as well. Score is for this incarnation.