Grunion

12 fl oz can from Brewdog online store. Deep orange golden colour, white foam head and juicy tropical fruit aroma with hoppy passionfruit, peach, nectarine, resiny pine. Flavour is malt caramel with woody pine, peach, fruity nectarine, hop resins and some grapefruit bitterness. Light bodied, soft to medium carbonation, dry woody bitter finish. Very drinkable.

(Keg at BrewDog Helsinki, 20150919) The beer poured amber and hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had fruitiness, black currant leaves and citricness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, citricness, black currant leaves, sweetness, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was hoppy and bitter. A good hoppy pale ale.

Tap@ Brewdog Helsinki. Pours amber color with a thin white head. Citrusy fruity aroma, sweet fruits. Mild dough. Flavor has citrus, grapefruit, grassy notes. Lovely flavors, fresh.

12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head. A big fruity fresh hop nose. The flavor is lovely, big citrus, oranges, sticky resin. So big despite the abv. Awesome.

Draught @ Haket. Pours clear golden with a frothy offwhite head that leaves some thick lacing and trace in the glass. Smell is tiny malty and fruity with caramel, bread, grapefruit juice, moist grass, pine needles, minerals, kumquats and lemon zest. Taste is tiny sweet, bitter, fruity and slightly grassy. Mouthfeel is crisp, tiny dry, slightly astringent and light to medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with crackers, caramel, grapefruit juice, mango, papaya, freshly cut grass, pine needles, kumquats, grape skins and lemon zest. Very solid hoppy APA/SIPA. Doesn’t seem to have suffered too much on the trip here. This is most likely quite insane very fresh.

Draft @ Bishops Arms Mollbergs, Helsingborg. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity grapefruit hoppy piney aroma. Fruity malty hoppy grapefruit peachy flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy grapefruit peachy finish.

New Beer Distributors, NYC bottle ($2.25): pours copper with small white head. Aroma is citrus, some pine... Quite powerful aroma. Taste is nice and bitter. A little bit of mineral. Nicely balanced. Quite good. I am surprised this took me this long to try it.

This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy burnt orange color with a light transparency about it. Carbonation runs up at a moderate pace to fill a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute. Spotty lacing sticks nicely around the glass.
The smell starts off with a nice crisp sweet fresh cut grass to it. A little bit of citrus and sweet pine come in underneath. Bitterness is there but not overly bearing.
The taste was balanced between the sweetness and the bitterness. Malts don’t show much sweet presence as the hops seem to be the leading factor of the sweetness. A light citrusy to pine aftertaste leads into a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice crisp sessionability about it. Carbonation runs nicely as an APA and the bitterness seems a little bit more than other APA’s but that’s okay.
Overall, I like this one and would have it again.

Draught @ Treetops Cafe, San Diego Zoo(!)

Pours orange with a tiny head. Aroma of juicy fruits, fresh grassy hops, citrus, tropical notes and pine. Taste is crisp, grassy and hoppy some fresh fruity notes, citrus, pine and resin. Finish is crisp, hoppy and fruity with some grassy notes. Pretty good.