7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can (10/14/21) pour from trade with AirForceHops--thanks, Chris! It's an opaque light brown with nice sparkle, finger-width off-white foamy head with good retention and fair soapy lacing. Aroma is strong mango with a bit of citrus over bread and caramel malt and hint of alcohol. Taste is moderately strong nonspecific fruit along with stronger bread and mild caramel. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, for a hop combination that is usually so juicy, this is surprisingly malty.

7

Thanks Chris aroma is mango, pineapple, light hops. Taste is candied citrus, malt, soft texture, nice finish.

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16 oz. can. Dated: 10-14-21. Aroma shows moderate citrus, citrus pith, old pineapple. Flavor has a mango like or pineapple like flavor throughout the sip mild citrus and the finish. Malt takes over when it warms. Almost no bitterness with a little bit of juice texture. It is good but certainly leans on the sweet side.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Canned 7/8/21, drunk 7/23/21.
Moderately-to-heavily-hazy, sunset-orange with an off-white head that is initially very large, slowly fading to small cover.
Crusty bread in the nose suggests these guys use a bit more than just base/pale malts (as does the sunny/fiery orange color). And I think it's ever-so-slight as to be really enjoyable. Usually hate it in IPAs, but here it's so light as to just add another layer of malt complexity to the orange, lemon, melon and strawberry hop notes. No alcohol or flaw, no twang. Soft and mild, for the most part with some definite orange juice-like NEIPA suggestions but also some more assertive hop acidity and no big bubble gum notes.
Soft, malty, well-attenuated in the mouth with spicy, dank hops in addition to the juicy lemon-orange notes. Honey, biscuit, cracker and light mineral all balance/build complexity and the carbonation is light and engaging. No alcohol or flaw noted. I think these guys do a great job with their NEIPAs. Neither too cookie cutter nor chalk full of bubble gum and straight up OJ.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home. Sludgy golden orange pour with decent sized head. Nose is fruit cocktail and malt. Tastes of pale malts, peach, oranges, honey, some perfume and stinging nettles. Sticky palate. Some hooch

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving scant spiders. Pineapple and tangerine aromas. Sweet with tangerine, peach and apricot upfront turning to soft mango in the medium length finish.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Super hazy deep golden, raw honey and even orange coloured body all with a relatively large three to five centimetre tall, just off-white head. Aroma of citrus, full oranges, light resin, some honey and light grain and a dose of piney hops, all with a lot of bitterness and a relatively smooth malt backbone which seems to stay with all the hops. Medium to even Full-bodied; Super rich deep malt bite with a lot of resinous, syrupy and very sweet hops showing through all with a lot of herbal and grassy notes that provide a very good balance and push through even some light mango and pineappley notes that bring in some sweetness and rounded complexity from the hops. Aftertaste shows the deep grain, a lot of syrupy and resinous sweetness and still a ton of alpha acids and bitterness from the hops, but all goes very nicely with all the malt, strong in nature, but balanced well and still shows some alcohol punch towards the end. Overall, a nice and relatively pungent Imperial-ish IPA that hides the alcohol well, but does leave more sweetness and body that reminds you of how high in alcohol it actually is. A very nice beer and one worth trying to find. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from the Department of Beer and Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 19-June-2020 for US$5,30 sampled at my house here in Washington on 07-July-2020.

5.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

6-27-20