15th November 2025
Panda thanks to Wingman. Hazy orange gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Light palate, mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light bodied pale malts, a thin but smooth creamy sweetness. Plenty of hop bite and cooling pine. Ripeish citrus and a little singed woody mango or something of that ilk. Light crisp finish leaves a long spicy linger. Curious but quite drinkable.

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 25/10/2025.
Murky orange topped with a just off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, raw pineapple, sharp tropical fruit esters.
Taste comprises grapefruit, pine needle, grass, mandarin, lychee.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with grassy come lightly danko hop bitterness allied to a mellow boost.
Tidy TIPA ... maintains a good bitter edge and never runs sweet.

$11.99 bomber, Wine Warehouse. Pours murky orange with a soft off-white head. Aroma is citrus peel: orange and grapefruit, pine, a little rubber. Flavor is bittersweet orange, melon, pine, grapefruit rind, light floral hops. Long lingering finish. Well made, but not my favorite.