Hazy golden body large frothy white head. Citrus fruity aroma. Citrus fruity flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 8/2/7/4/15 3.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

From a can at Hops and Bottles, Boise. Pours a cloudy deep orange/golden. Mold malty aromas and flavors. A little toasted bready character. The hop character is a bit Underwhelming. Papery and bland. What I suspect a stale or old ipa would be. This is practically an Amber

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit and light pine aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with caramel. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with light caramel.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

At Beartooth Cafe, Cooke City. Pours clear dark golden with a minimal, off-white head. The aroma contains hops, fruits, honey, grass and malt. It tastes medium sweet and medium bitter. Smooth clean finish, not too dry and rather malty. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Enjoyable but lacking a decent IPA punch.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 oz bottle. Aroma is floral, fruity (berry, citrus), caramel, ginger ale. Pours hazy new penny copper with a thick bone-white head with good retention and some lace. Taste is sweet, mildly bitter. Mouthfeel is a little watery. With that ABV, those IBUs, and that mouthfeel, it seems more like a straight pale ale. Kind of boring whatever it is. 6,4,5,4,10=2.9. 5/21/19 update; 12 oz can: they've upped the IBUs to 51, and now it definitely tastes like an IPA, and not a bad one either. It's moderately bitter with flavors of citrus, pine, floral notes. I wonder if this a fresher can than the bottle I had before. Upgraded from a 2.9 to a 3.6.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Marcus. Pours orange gold with a white head. Aroma is floral. Med body or so. Flavor is an odd sort of cooked pale stone fruit with some slightly roasty malt and after notes of diacetyl. I don’t like that. Not a terrible beer, but for me it’s not too enjoyable.

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

Nice copper and bronze glow to a thinnish, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of earth, toffee, pears and apples and a bit of very mellow english or low a.a. hops. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong earthy and biscuity malt flavours with some caramel and toffee and a touch of light herbal hops and a touch of grass coupled with some sweeter elements on the end, but nothing too deep or strong either way. Aftertaste is rather bland with only a touch of biscuits and earth and a little hop bitterness, but not much. Overall, not such a great beer, which is too bad, because the name and beer bottle are nice, but that’s the way it goes. Definitely not worth carting this all the way from rural Montana to Washington then up to Maine, but still, neat for me to try. However, if you are based out West, there is no real need to sample this one at all. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Vintage Cellars in Great Falls, Montana on 20-June-2016 for US$1,75 sampled in my hotel room here in Portland, Maine on 29-July-2016.

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

Bottle from Albertsons. As the description says, not a big, overwhelming hoppy IPA, nicely balanced, which makes it an easy drinker. Tasty malts coupled with mild hops. Really good!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

On tap at prefunk Boise. Pours out a crisp golden topped with a white head. Nose is lots of malts and a newspaper old hop. Taste is more of the sweetness old hop notes and plenty of malts.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Quite dark for an IPA, so despite the sharp label and name hinting at brightness I am not expecting anything too bright now. Has a floral hop note and a sweet biscuity dark malt. Sweeter, fruity and there’s a light brown sugar sweetness. It’s okay, but just too much dark malt.