Canned 6/8/22, drunk 7/3/22. Lightly hazy, brass-bronze with a small, white head showing low retention. Fruity and spicy with pine, but no heavy resin or sourish hop character. Some good tangerine, lemon and even juicy grapefruit with a solid base of honey and white bread-like malt for balance. No alcohol or flaw, nor weird yeast character. Soft and surprisingly balanced with tangerine, nectarine, papaya and a build up of pine and other spicy hop notes that never get too bitter/sourish/fatiguing. Malts are lightly sweet but appropriately attenuated leading to a great balance that is still bitterness-forward to live up to its intended style. Definitely a nod to the NEIPA, but with a solid pine and citrus backbone and much higher than average bitterness.