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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

2020-09-25, bottle from The Gull, North Vancouver, 7-5-7-3-14=36
Beautiful golden colour, clean. The aroma is a bit weedy, earthy, with elegant notes of caramel and bread. Dry mouthfeel, it's more difficult to get the same malt notes in the flavour; the hop is quite herbaceous, a bit piney; not really fond of the pithy bitterness in the finish.
Good experience to review a "classic", but nothing exciting.

2016-11-09, 8-4-7-3-15=37
A month later, the feeling is exactely the same.

2016-10-12, bottle, undated, 8-4-7-3-15=37
Golden color, clean, with large bubbles. The aroma shows biscuity quality from the malt, and earthy, manure from the hops. The mouthfeel is dry, the malt is a bit biscuity, maybe even grainy, the bitterness is strong, but the hop is resiny and a bit vegetable, not juicy, leading to a pithy ending bitterness.
A good beer, but not the best one in the Province, even not the best one from Driftwood.

2015-09-24, bottle, undated, 8-5-7-4-16=40
Hazy bronze color with large head. The aroma is quite pungent, with a dank touch. The mouthfeel is quite smooth; the malt flavor is present, with also light residual sweetness; the hopping is fresh, fruity, and also a bit dunky and earthy. The final is less bright, more vegetable than desired.
It seems more achieved than last year's.

2014-10-01, bottled 09.17.2014, 7-5-7-3-14=36
Wonderful golden color, hazy, with bright light, and medium sized compact head. The aroma is initially quite grassy; it mellows out then, and it also shows some sign of asian food, and wild animal. Smooth mouthfeel, semi-dry; the malt flavor doesn't seem to be of any interest, the hops have a hay and gras character; strong bitterness, but some mess in the end.
Confirmed tat this year's version is far from spectacular; it's still a good beer.

2014-09-28, draught at St. Augustine's, Vancouver, 7-4-7-4-14=36
Hazy golden color with compact head. Nice hop aroma, a bit earthy and grassy; good mouthfeel, soft pale malt flavor, light residual sweetness, grassy hops.

2014-09-25, cask at Tap & Barrel, Coal Harbor, Vancouver, 7-4-7-4-15=37
Golden to light amber color, hazy, with compact head. Nice aroma, milder than expected though, with bready malt and sweaty hop, a bit earthy, almost British. Good body structure, and correctly carbonated; the mouthfeel is smooth; lean malt flavor, suitable background for IPAs, with light colored caramel and toasty notes; very strong bitterness, strong resiny character from the hop, also fairly grassy and earthy, not fruity. The final is very long, but with woody (vegetable) notes too.
A very solid IPA, should I say that it's less fresh and less impressive than expected?

2014-06-27, courtesy of CapFlu, bottled 9.23.13, 7-4-7-5-15=38
Hazy golden color. The aroma is nice, bread, cereals and hop. Lean, zesty, with good malt profile and good hopping, minty and resiny.
Excellent.
Fresh must be fantastic, can't wait to try the next batch.