12 ounce can. Pours a clear orange color with a medium white head. A light fruity citrus nose. The flavor is big sweet citrus, lemons, bready, light toast base. Solid.

New Year Bottle Share in Odense. Cloudy pale amber with a small white head. Malty aroma with grassy and fruity notes. Dry malty and citrus hoppy flavour

Bottleshare @ Rekviums Pizza Palace, Odense C. My fifteen thousand party bash. Pours hazy golden with a creamy white head. Peach and grass. Dry and bitter flavor with citrus and biscuit.

Light copper coloured body with a amber glow and a thin, soapy white head, only about a centimetre tall. Aroma of fresh grassy hops with a touch of herbs, soap and some very mild bitterness, but not much at all. Super light-bodied; Very mild flavour of grass, herbs, hops, resin and a faint bit of pine - the hops are noticeable, but very mild, and the beer goes down very easily given that there isn’t much malt here at all. Aftertaste shows the grass and hay with little else, a touch of light tropical fruit flavours and that’s about it. Overall, a good beer for the style - shows the hops, shows a touch of bitterness, a tiny bit of complexity, yet remains super easy to drink and doesn’t show any alcohol at all - perfect for the summertime, which is just about everyday in California! I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 12-July-2015 for US$1,79 sampled on the train from Washington to New York (while in New Jersey) on 18-December-2015.

Can at home from the good hop. Clear golden orange coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is semi sweet grains, tea leaves, light pine and orange peel, sweet caramec notes. Flavour is composed of light caramel, thin malts, pine and orange peel. Earthy pine. Palate is semi crisp, frothy, tangy citrus. Lingering tea leaves. Pretty ordinary session IPA.

Ballast Point’s interpretation of the ’new’ India session ale style, with medium thick, pale greyish white, opening yet stable, lightly lacing head and clear, deep orange blonde colour with lively fizz, becoming a more cloudy ’sunset’ orange with deposit, but still looking warm and attractive. The ethereal herbal aroma makes my mouth water in instants: pink grapefruit peel, pine needles, sundried chilli peppers, iron but in a completely natural way even reinforcing the fragrant hop aromas, lime zest, curry spices, tropical orchids, fried chicken, blood orange, overripe papaja, pomegranate, fresh ginger, cigarette tobacco. Crisp, moderately fruity onset with weak hints of redcurrant, mango and orange, minerally accents, thin body as expected from a low ABV beer, very lean and light on the tongue with fine carbonation ’stings’ here and there, fairly neutral and dryish with a very subtle toasted edge, bit oily, with complex and aromatic hop bitterness increasing towards the end, drying more and more, with lovely retronasal herbal, dried grapefruit peel and fairly strong pine aromas as well as enough bittering power to almost stop the malts from flowing through in the end. High quality craft beer as I expected from this brewery, with a ’high’ and very herbal hop fragrance which stays restrained in the sweet citrus department: instead, tropical spice and ’boreal’ pine aromas prevail, which vaguely reminds me of Stone’s Go To IPA. Perhaps not the best choice for a gloomy autumn night, but nothing wrong with some ’California dreaming’ and regardless, this session IPA delivers what it promises: a great, flavourful, highly aromatic thirst quencher. I hope this ISA trend finds its way to Western Europe: I love the idea of a vast array of this type of beers being around here. Could drink this all day (without getting drunk - which is another advantage of this style that can be used as a persuasive marketing argument towards European consumers, I reckon; so get started with this, Belgian craft brewers!).

Pours deep gold into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Dark resin aromas. Thin with resin and grapefruit upfront with an abrupt pith finish.

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12 oz bottle. Pours copper with little head. Aromas of candied grapefruit and pine. Flavors of sharp dry pine, citrus peel, and bitter resin. Not much body and watery but a tasty pounder.

Can from BottleDog, Edinburgh. Hazy golden body with a medium white head. Steady carbonation. Nice lacing. Aroma of pine, nettles, lime and grain. Flavour of herbs and grapefruit with a steely edge. Medium body with an oiy mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Very clean and easy drinking.