Poured from the tap @ Alesmith (side by side with Padre 2000). Clear-ish gold with small white head. Piney resinous hops, feint citrus in the background, prefer over the 2000 variant. Very nice.

On tap at AleSmith, pours a clear bright golden with a small white head. Aroma is dominated by resinous and piney hops, a hint of dankess, and just enough bready malt to back. Flavour is a hop monster, with tons of resinous hops, some orange peel, light pine, backed by the sweet maltiness of the bigger malt bill than the 2000. Resinous, nicely bitter, and well-balanced. Excellent.

Pint can pours with a hop hazed copper gold colored body that supports a nearly white head that leaves behind some spotty lacing. The aroma offers up kind of pine sap like hoppiness leading to juicy notes of fresh tangelo and clementine as well as a sliver or two of grapefruit peel. The taste delivers deep chewy malt thickened pine hop bitterness followed quickly by juicy tangelo and a bit of orange juice. This gets more serious to midway as the level of booze is noticed blending with the citrus hoppiness. Solid rewarding ballsy West Coast IIIPA. I wish I knew what Tony would think of this. We miss you Mr. San Diego.