7.6

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

Mostly clear, but slightly hazy golden and peach coloured body with a nice one centimetre tall off-white head on top. Aroma of rye and deep grainy malts with some earthiness and a robust herbal kick towards the end, with some alpha acids and a light sweetness, too, in the nose. Medium-bodied; Crisp grassy and herbal notes show the strong rye maltiness with a pungent bitter quality and a light earthiness, with some alcohol noticeable towards the end and a lot of pungency from the hops here, that really shows up at the finish. Aftertaste is dry, herbal, floral and showing an assertive and old-school bitterness with a pretty well-balanced sweetness and some ever so slight citrus qualities. Overall, showing as a pretty nice old-school IPA with the obvious rye notes, but balanced and strong - enjoyable and great for rye lovers! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, purchased from Giant Eagle (grocery) in Morgantown, West Virginia on 27-May-2023 for US$1,99 (part of a mixed six pack), packaged on 13-December-2021 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 05-June-2023.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle from State Line, 9/3/22. Hazy orange, floaties, medium off-white head, average retention. Aroma of rye, mango. Taste is mango, rye, tangerine, pale malt. Juicy, mild bitterness. Decent.

3.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Clear pale yellow from a bottle with a big foamy head. Slight nose of IPA perfume. Taste is typical lighter IPA. Very little carbonation, somewhat mouth coating but not like the mouth-coating of most IPA. Almost seems to come across as a higher hopped pale ale. Fairly difficult and rude. Like most IPA, what else can be said about a style of which all quadrillion taste about the same? There, you have it.

4

Pours a cloudy amber color, fluffy white head. Aroma of almost imperceptible grain. Taste has very plain grain notes. Palate has much of the same. Incredibly plain.

7.2

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

Bottle from Shaw's Dark gold in color with a decent sized fluffy white head that recedes. Spicy earthy citrus and a bit of bready maltiness to back it up. Not Bad.