29th September 2024
Near clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Light palate, smooth until some decent fine minerally carbonation comes through on the back end. Light smooth clean malts, a nice light sweetness. Smooth cooling pine. Lovely light hoppy fruits, slightly resinous into slightly floral fruits, quite a broad spectrum of hop fruits, slightly fruit pastilles! The lightest touch of hop spice on the finish. What a delight. Clean as a whistle and a wonderful diversion from the yeasty bastards that assail us from all directions these days. Okay, many of them are really rather good, okay? But this is still a nice change and rather a nice beer eh what? --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 21 Sep 2022 at 23:01 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: 21st September 2022
Can from Drankenhandel and supped in my Leiden hotel room. Almost clear gold beer, good bubbly cream colour head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Light malts, a trace of creamy sweetness. A forensic amount of grain. Fairly bright and juicy pine. The West Coast tropes are all here, ripe citrus, citrus peel, some marmalade. This one raises it's head above the morass by delivering bright pine and a little bright grapefruit. These minor variations can make a lot of difference to me as I am bored to death by this narrow style.

19.2 oz. can, pours a clear amber golden with a medium off-white head. Nose is full of sticky resinous hops, some pine, a touch of juicy stone fruits, and big caramel malt backbone. Flavour is rich, assertive, and balanced, with a forceful resinous and piney hop character, gentle fruitiness, and a perfectly situated caramel malt backbone. Never too malty or sweet despite this one having plenty of malts; yet it is the resinous hops in old school WC fashion that shine. Excellent.

Can @ home. Slightly unclear golden body under a big, nicely lacing white head. Aroma has distinct malt, citric hops, some resin and marmalade. Taste is sweet and fruity with malt, citric fruit, marmalade, resin, pine and balanced bitterness. Fine body with long lasting bitter aftertaste. Lovely, classic imp stout for true beer lovers.