Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Canned April 14th, 2021, drunk April 28th, 2021. Extremely opaque, bronze-brass with a medium-sized, persistent, creamy, white head. Strong white grapefruit and pine in the nose with a moderate helping of malt backing more in the form of bread/cracker and less-so rich honey. Maybe a touch of heat from some mix of alcohol or aspirin-like yeast character. Strong wintergreen/pine lingering. Soft and even quite viscous for the style with heavily supportive, cracker and bread-like malts that are pretty well-attenuated. It needs every bit of malt support it can get; this is aggressivly hoppy with much more pine and white grapefruit bitterness than usual for an NEIIPA. A fair amount of hop twang/slight aspirin on the end really brings it down. Even if viewed as a hybrid WCIPA and NEIPA, it still comes across too hot. Sat on em' for a week, but they didn't really improve. Maybe they needed longer? Hard to really give it too much leeway after 3 weeks in the can.