Can at home picked up from HOTM. A translucent golden yellow coloured pour with a lasting sticky white head. Aroma is soft wheat, mellow tropicals, melon balls, white grape, bit of lychee, white sugar. pear. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, melon, squishy fruits, melon, white grape, lychee, soft wheat, spicy orange rind, tangerine. Palate is semi sweet, soft fluffy wheat, frothy carbonation. Juicy.

Can, 0.44l. Aroma of mango, peach, citrus and caramel. Pours hazy pale golden color with large soapy white head and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts citrusy and ripe tropical fruity, following is caramelly and faint medicinal, mouthfeel is warm and mild spicy, while finish is average bitter. Full body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. These socks doesn’t suck at all…

22nd July 2021
Can. Hazy orange gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, very mildly dry, a good fine minerally crispness. Smooth light creamy malts, that deft Other Half touch. I get all excited about the experimental South African XJA hops but that geekgasm dies down a bit when I realise that it's sharing the stage with 3 other hops. Light smooth pine runs over the top of everything. Motueka floral citrus with a very light Cascade citric snap. Of the flavour profile of these XJA hops, the one thing that comes through loud and clear here is the cantaloupe, reminds me of the Jelly Belly cantaloupes. Some bergamotty mildly peppery lemon zest coming through at the end. Any other advocations of flavours for this hop are lost in the morass, to me anyway. Nice beer. Plenty going on and classically OH drinkable. But any old time you want to do an XJA dipa showcase gents, that would be fine and dandy with me.

Can in the garden, now a mini heatwave hits England, 16th July 2021. Pours a milky yellow beast, no head. Aroma is tropical fruit and candy, taste is mandarin, pineapple, earthy, complex, aromatic, very tasty hop juice