7

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

Clearish gold with a decent white head. Mandarin and a touch of tropical notes. Soft Mandarin notes.

6.8

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

473ml can. Pours a hazy gold-yellow with a small, creamy, long lasting, white head that leaves soapy lacing. Sweet fruity aroma of bready wheat malt, peach, papaya, mango, pineapple, orange peel, tangerine, cantaloupe and earthy yeast. Sweet fruity flavour of bready wheat malt, apricot, peach, mango, cantaloupe, pineapple, tangerine, orange peel and oats in a crisp, dry, bitter pine finish. Medium body with a soft, sticky texture and average carbonation. Enjoyable.

6.4

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

473mL can, pours a clear golden with a large white head. Aroma is full of pineapple, other tropical fruits, resinous hops, a little pine, and sweet bready malt. Flavour is much less vibrant and fruity, with earthy hops, a dusty piney character, and bready / biscuity malt. It's not as vibrant as it could be and the hops don't seem all that forceful. Rather dulled hops. It's alright.

6.4

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

Can from The Gull, North Vancouver, tagged Merida4, 06/05/2020, less than 3 months old
Cloudy to murky blond colour, with compact head. Mild aroma of fruity hops, stone fruit. The mouthfeel is quite dry, which makes it nice on this hot day, the base is not too chalky (just a bit); there are some hop resins, some citrus peel, not the fruitiness usually associated to the style.
Decent drink, I don't think it got much worse because of the age.

7.1

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

Can, Cask & Barrel. This is hazy, with a thin head. The aroma brings citrus and subtropical fruit notes, but I'm finding them a bit indistinct. Soft body...that's some nice pale malts right there...and a juicy hop note that comes across in a cantaloupe and white grapefruit sort of way. The body is still soft through the finish, which reflects both the low alcohol (not IPA-level alcohol, and hence no alcoholic bite) and the lowish bitterness (in this case, allowing the fruits to shine through). I swear during the Lupulin Threshold Shift days in the 00s this would have been called a golden ale, and been the sixth-hoppiest beer out of 8 at a brewery's tap room.

6

A hazed golden ipa with a thick frothy creamy lacing white head. In aroma, fruity malt with cereals, resinous hops. In mouth, a nice fruity malt with peaches, nectarines, resinous hops, nice and refreshing.