7

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can at home. Murky pale fruit juice appearance. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, decently fruity hoppy and some hoppy bitterness. Alright.

7.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

440ml can @ Tim's place, Gent. Pours a misty pale yellow, white foam atop. Big zesty citrus aroma contributing to a fresh citrus hit to taste, prominent grapefruit. Rounded bitterness, nicely balanced, seshy. Good stuff.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Frischer, herb hopfiger Beginn, leicht scharfer Hopfen, kräutrig, erhöhte Karbonisierung. Moderat bitter, die erhöhte Karbonisierung stört, rund. Mittellanger Abgang. 10/11/9/9/10/10

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Polly's Night At Home Beers, Can#1 of 3. A hazy start, with pleasant soft citrus dominant, although some pine is available too. There's a very light citric bitterness, but nothing that gets active in the palate.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from M&S, the Gyle, Edinburgh. Pours murky yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of pineapple and grapefruit, some peach. Taste is more of the same. Light spice on the finish.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Hazy APA hopped with Citra, Simcoe, Wai-ti and the spotlighted Motuere, a new New Zealand dual-purpose variety launched in 2018 and described as passionfruit- and grapefruit-like in aroma. Can from the Marks & Spencer supermarket in Aberdeen. Thick and foamy, snow white, pillowy, cobweb-lacing head, cloudy pale straw blonde robe with olive-greenish tinge. Aroma of lime zest, chervil, sweet cicely, unripe guava, maracuja, lemongrass, light gypsum, white bread dough, green banana, chamomile flowers, withering leek and a light but persistent sweaty dankness in the background. Clean onset, quite crisp for the style and low in sweetness, with some green banana, hard pear and starfruit associations; lively carb through a lightly powdery, somewhat creamy-oily body. Slender white-bread-doughy and sweetish-grainy pale maltiness quickly moving to a greenish but aromatic finish, providing impressions of lime peel, lemongrass, green kiwi, unripe guava, raw chervil and deep-fried parsley, with the citric aspect (the lime peel) eventually becoming dominant. The hop combo here feels more grassy and crisp than expected, with little 'tropicalness' - different from what I was expecting, but pleasantly surprising in that sense. The bitterness is a bit powdery, mild but effective, a tad green-peppery and lingering - but the soft 'bed' of white bread dough-like maltiness also continues, preventing the finish from becoming really IPA-like and thus keeping everything within the acceptable limits of what can be called an APA - a "NZ" variant of it at least, less exuberant and sultry than many of its congeners, but refreshingly 'green' and cleverly constructed. Lovely, intelligent beer if you prefer your IPAs and / or APAs crisp and quenching.

8

Fruity, balanced, piney. Amazing to find this at M&S!

7.5

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

Can from M&F Bottleshop at home 16/10/2024 Fruity notes of grapefruit and passionfruit, mango and papaya, piney resinous hops, sweet pale malty backing, medium body, resinous solid balanced bitter hoppy close. Really nice.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

27/9/2024. Tap at Beer Shop, St Albans. Pours cloudy yellow gold with a frothy white head. Aroma is grapefruit, gooseberries, white grape, peach, tropical fruits, husky notes. Moderate sweetness and bitterness with light tartness. Moderate body, average carbonation. Enjoyable.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at Bourne. Hazy pale yellow golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are pine and citrus. Medium body.