26th February 2025
Panda thanks to Wingman. A light haze on this gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. A light palate, semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Light malts, a mild creamy sweetness. Light cooling pine. Fairly rich but tangy bright citrus, a mildly tangy stone fruits. Light semi dry finish. Nice if slightly thin.

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 16/02/25.
Hazed orange topped with a just off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is orange zest, pineapple, grass, papaya, mandarin.
Taste comprises orange peel, peach, grass, light pine, grapefruit.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close punctured with juicy hop bitterness.
Tidy enough pale.

Pours hazy light gold into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving slight sheets. Bread, earthy leaves and funky yeast aromas. Soft with caramel, grilled meat, and earthy yeast front to back. Dry vegetal finish. This is a strange one...glad others are enjoying it...

Draught at Deep Ellum, 2/21/14 Very hazy pour, even worse than the fort point I had. Deep golden with very light amber tints and, at least, a mountainous, very well-retained white head. Nose is similar to Fort Point, though not as expressive and a little more straightforward with the citrus. Perhaps a touch more pine in there but no alcohol. A bit of doughiness and some other strange notes (almost a hickory nut-like lime-sugariness). Medium to medium high strength of aroma. No alcohol noted. At first sip, it’s a little muddled thanks to all the sediment. The hops certainly come forward, adding plentiful dry orange rind and lots of white grapefruit bitterness. Grows more acidic on the palate until the malts take over towards the end, adding simple sugar and honey like notes. As it warms the malts continue to pour forth really sweetening things. An odd, almost bittersweet lime-like note works its way in leaving a slightly unclean feel. By the end of the glass, it’s too sweet for my taste, albeit not horribly so. Very thick texture, medium to medium-full bodied. There’s certainly a fine line between over and under producing a beer. In a very good example, this was certainly under produced (ie. it seems like it came off secondary too quickly and was just thrown in to kegs in a very rustic, unfiltered/unfined state) while the Mayflower Rye that my friend had was overproduced, being ultra clear and having a hard, almost lifeless/industrial feel to it from the over-filtration. 6/4/6/3/12 Growler filled 2/3/16 and drunk 2/7/16. Well, this certainly is different than the previous experience. Gloriously hoppy, clean fresh and stunningly drinkable. Obviously Trillium has come a long way since I last rated this. One of their more dry, crisp, yet still flavorful and hoppy pales. Always the biggest fan of their low gravity pale ales and this is no exception. Right up there with Pocket Pigeon (and I assume on par with Skimpy Sparrow, though I missed it). Rating is for this version. Draught at Fenway, 3/1/22. Yikes this smells heavily of sulfur. In the mouth it's light and fruity, but overly watery. I LOVE the small bird series and there's a certain element of wateriness or low gravity that I appreciate but this is outside of that. Just watery and washed out. Peach, lemon and pine are weak and there's a lot of particulate-like blandness with lingering pine-like bitterness. Nothing comes together here, just a mess.

Growler at RBWG, thanks. Pours a clear gold that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has notes of citrus with growing pine and grass as well as a light bread backing. Flavor is similar with a nice light citrus and grass combination backed by a light bread note.

Growler at RBWG. Pours yellow with white head. Nose and taste of weed, caramel malt, lemon, grapefruit/citrus and pine. Medium body. Well balanced.