16 oz can. Aroma shows a good amount of pine with grapefruit rind. The flavor has very little fruit. Perhaps stone fruit or melon been a very mild malt backbone. Hate to say it BUT this is just way to pine resin forward. Reminds me of a West Coast style IPA which nobody’s really drinking in 2021. Or should I say, I am not.

On tap at Willimantic, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out resinous hops, light tropical fruits, and some pine. Flavour is very fruity, with loads of resinous hops, and tropical stone fruits. Fruity and juicy, with a nice hop character. Excellent - better than the average rating suggests.

Sample at GABF 10/07/2017, thanks to my bro for assistance with note-taking. Cloudy orange color with a medium off-white head that diminishes gradually. Strings of lace. Aroma of tropical fruit, herbal hop and malt. Medium body with flavors of piney hops, fruit and caramel malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a lingering fruity hop aftertaste. Above average overall.

Taster pour at Craft Brew Race New Haven. Appearance is dark yellow/light brown, no sparkle, small ring of head, mild lacing. Aroma is subtle; mild pine and resin. Taste is fruit, and bitter grapefruit. The last 2/3 is bitter dominant. Palate is medium bodied with thick texture, soft carbonation and a bitter, dry finish. Overall, the aroma and flavor are overshadowed by dominant bitter.

Growler filled and drunk 12/12/15.
Deep golden liquid has a slight haze to it and a large white head with moderate retention.
Big ruby red grapefruit, orange rind and sweet pine certainly outdo the lesser tropical fruit notes, but the malt provides a good backing, keeping it from getting too resinous or sharp in the nose. Lightly dank aromatics increase with warming, adding moss, pepper and lime skin to the mix. No alcohol or flaws noted.
The very first impression is of mango, papaya, nectarine and light peach. It’s delightfully bright and flavorful but slowly gives way to stronger notes of citrus. Bitterness creeps in pretty quickly and there are some sweet malt notes as well. A bit dull/bitter and uniformly citric on the finish, though some of the juicy, tropical character remains. A very well-done IPA and maybe 5 or so years ago it would have been more impressive, but as is, it’s just vastly outclassed by the tier of Tree House/HF/Trillium and such.