7.6

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

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 7/17/2017. Pours slightly hazy medium orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lightly tart red/green apples, fruit peels, cracker, toasted biscuit, light caramel, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of apples, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big lightly tart red/green apples, fruit peels, cracker, toasted biscuit, light caramel, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/grassy/spicy hop bitterness and apple tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart red/green apples, fruit peels, cracker, toasted biscuit, light caramel, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of apples, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/tart/bitterness balance. Touch of hop/fruit astringency lingering through the glass, but not overwhelming. Light-moderate increasing dryness from tart/bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, bready/grainy, and fairly sticky/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very nice fruit beer. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of apples, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink, despite the increasing tart/bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful with great rich malt complexity for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.