7.5

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

On tap at Le Cheval Blanc, pours a fairly clear pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma reveals a really nice weat coast hop expression — there's pine, dank weediness, some resins — and backed with a crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is clean, with piney hops, some resins, and crisp biscuity malt. There's very low residual bitterness. I like these blonde IPAs — they often manage to be cleaner than the over-malted old school (I)IPAs. Very drinkable, yet I'd still hope for a more forceful hop character. Good.