Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 5.5

Pours pale golden with a haze. Initial ok head, but it quickly collapses. Intense aroma of oranges and mandarines from the very moment the can was opened, which comes from the addition of oils from these two citrus fruits. There also appear to be bitter parts of the citrus peels in there, for it has a citrus-like bitterness that I don't think comes from hops, and it is more bitter than the 40 IBU listed on the label. I suppose this use of oils is ok, but it makes the beer one-dimentional, because there is very little room left for anything else than citrus oils. I suppose it is an alternative to using insane amounts of citrusy aroma-hops, but to me it does not taste right. It has a little astringent character. In addition there is a slightly oily and mouth-coating character to the beer. And the oils probably killed the head. On the up-side: this beer has a best-before date of 24 months after brewing. I do understand that this is attractive to brewers, since IPAs typically have much shorter shelf-life, but still ... This does not rival "true" IPAs in quality. When the oils more or less left the almost empty glass, the beer is rather anonymous and has a slightly dusty aroma to it.