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

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

19 December 2025. Country Tasting @ Tim’s - thanks for hosting, cheers to the whole crew!

A: hazy yellow, stable, small, foamy, white head.
A: peach, lime, grape, starfruit, citrus zest.
T: sweetish grape & kiwi, sourish citrus, bitter pine.
F: peppery & floral hops, citrus pith, grape.
P: medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation.
Nicely dry yet refreshing.

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.

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.

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.