Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

IPA hopped with Citra, Topaz, Columbus and Chinook (and intended as a West Coast IPA) from this craft brewery in northeastern Spain. Gusher, so be ware when opening. Initially towering high but quickly collapsing, egg-white, very mousy, audibly crackling, thickly cobweb-lacing, irregular and very uneven-bubbled, eventually opening head on an initially lightly hazy, warm orange-tinged 'old gold' beer with a disparate suspension of tiny, translucent yeast bits; shifts to a more 'equal' misty orange with the sediment added. Expressive aroma of orange flower water, freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice, mandarin slices soaked in white wine, lemon candy, honey, lychee wine, hints of overripe nectarine, orange cookies, marmalade, rusty iron (oxidation!), cedar oil, gasoline, olive oil. Sweet onset, lots of 'hop fruitiness' whilst relatively low in esters, impressions of peach, melon, lychee and strawberry, light sourish edge, softly tingling carb, slick and oily, slender body. Thinly caramelly malt backbone, a tad resinous with slight dry-biscuity edges, aromatized by very citrusy hoppiness, orange orchard and grapefruit blossom, with a piney edge - but also a noticeable 'rusty' oxidation effect already appearing. The hops, apart from providing this lush citrus effect (almost perfumey - the orange blossom water impression returns), also add a long-stretched, spicy bitterness to the finish, although a trace of sweet maltiness still passes through. The alcohol clearly establishes a certain degree of astringency and warmth, which should never be the case in a beer of 7% ABV. My sample is apparently past its peak, with a light but unmistakable degree of oxidation already in effect, but the citrusy and flowery hop aromas are still very much alive; points off for the gushing and badly hidden alcohol, but that said, I can always appreciate an attempt at looking back into modern craft beer history and reverting to West Coast style IPA, essentially the starting point of the global, postmodern IPA wave. This one needs more piney 'resinousness' and downright grapefruit bitterness to fully qualify as one, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, all things considered.