Pours bright gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Baby aspirin aromas. Soft with lemon and spruce upfront turning to bitter earth and aspirin in the medium length finish.

Taster pour at Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Across America and can pour into nonic pint glass from Redstone Liquors. Appearance is mildly hazy light orange with nice sparkle, thin white head with poor retention and light soapy lacing. Aroma is spruce with a tart element and light fruity sweetness. Taste is lightly sweet--tree sap and spruce with some tart, cracker, and hint of smoke. Palate is medium bodied with thick, foamy texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, right mix of spruce tips without going over the top nor too mild. Flavors really shine when allowed to warm.

12 oz. bottle purchased at 7 Eleven, Kittery ME. Rather clear gold color, weak head and light soapy lace. Aroma has a light fruit element with a light hint of evergreen and spruce. Maybe even yeast.

Flavor has a balance between the fruit notes and the spruce flows throughout the entire sip. Spruce gives light bitterness and not overdone in any form. The texture gets real dry but pleasant. I enjoyed how delicate the spruce tips were infused in this brew.

Fresh, 2015 bottles drunk July and August 2015.
A lightly hazy deep copper-sunset orange liquid has an off-white head atop, full and well-retained.
Clean, lightly fruity yeast mixes with a touch of citrus and bare, bready malts. The actual pine is well-done and not overdone, adding a perfumey spruce nose, much like a freshly installed christmas tree. Dry, orange marmalade-like notes linger on the end with no alcohol or flaw.
Big spruce tip flavor up front is joined by light honey malt flavors, showing good balance, with a moderate, tight carbonation giving a nearly creamy mouthfeel. Light pine and a plethora of citrus flavors through the middle (orange rind, marmalade, white grapefruit), ending on some mildly sweet, bready malt notes and more of the perfume-like, sprucey pine. Certainly a unique/interesting beer, and while the acidity isn’t a problem, there’s still a bone dry astringency from the spruce that isn’t 100% enjoyable for me. Still, the beer is well-attenuated and clean and obviously well-brewed. Lots of marmalade and pine on the finish gets a bit monotonous.