CBC. Hazy golden with a lasting white head. Aroma of citrus and pine with caramel. Sweet malty flavour with citrus and pine and a touch of booze.

Tap@ CBC 2016. Pours amber color with dense white head. Pine, resin, grapefruit. Nice bitterness. Fresh, hoppy, citrusy. Excellent. Good drinkability.

Tap at Mikkeller Bar. Pours clear amber with creamy white head. Aroma of caramel, sticky resin, grapefruit and light cat piss. Taste is sweetish, sticky resin and caramel with grapefruit leading to a lingering bitter finish.

Bottle from rabbott, bottled 2/15/16, drunk 3/17/16.
Big, off-white head atop shows strong retention. Light amber-to-copper body shows great clarity and low carbonation visible.
Varied citrus zest, apples, light pineapple and some juicy pine are actually pretty well-restrained on the resin. At the start of the glass, though the beer is still too cold, there’s no sign of the abv, though maybe just a touch of perfume-like alcohol as it starts to warm. Not exactly bursting forth with hop aromatics, but digging deep in to the nose, there’s some canteloupe and light watermelon mixing with pale malts to give a deep fruit juiciness.
Diving in to the glass, the first sip shows lots of orange, caramel and heavily drying pine-mixed-with-alcohol on the finish. Continued sips show more alcohol, light sourness, caramel, increasing bitterness and really not much to enjoy other than the malty texture and mostly engaging carbonation. It does seem like there are remnants of watermelon and other juicy fruits, so I’ll give it some credit there and assume that must have been more enjoyable when fresh, but conversely, this would have been punishingly boozey and resinous when extremely fresh. So again, I’m more a fan of letting 3F’s beer sit for about a month, even if that means missing out on some of the more volatile hop compounds.
With more warming, it continues to get boozier and boozier, the alcohol even loosening up the texture and yet heavily drying the finish. Can barely make it through a glass. I’d try it again when really fresh, on principle, but I’m confident there’s no amount of (hypothetical) fruity/juicy hops that can cover up this heavy citrus, sour resin and intense alcohol. Just no need for this much alcohol.

Bottle thanks to rich. pours out a hazy gold topped with a small white head. nose is big malts plenty sweetness lots of grain and some old hops. Taste is more of the heavy malts sweetness and a light hop.

Tasting glass, 4-ounce, draught, gift from the brewer, during the Great American Beer Festival, savoured on September 25 2015; eye: amber, clear, no effervescence, nice beige head, lots of lacing; nose: I smell orange two feet from the glass, pine, resin, malt, tropical fruits; mouth: orange, pine, resin, malt, tropical fruits, light astringency, finale in pine with good presence of tropical fruits, full body, good carbonation, mildly bitter, lightly sweet, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Verre de dégustation, 4 onces, en fût, cadeau du brasseur, durant le Great American Beer Festival, savourée le 25 septembre 2015; œil : ambrée, limpide, pas d’effervescence, bonne mousse beige, beaucoup de dentelle; nez : je sens l’orange à deux pieds du verre, pin, résine, malt, fruits tropicaux; bouche : orange, pin, résine, malt, fruits tropicaux, légère astringence, finale en pin avec bonne présence de fruits tropicaux, corsée, bonne carbonatation, moyennement amère, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement râpeuse; en résumé : bien