IPA rating #900!
32oz growler pours up with a nice opaque hop hazed deep copper body that has some gold hues and supports a tall tan head of foam. The aroma offers up herbally, spicy, floral and grapefruit like citrus hoppiness and it becomes a little more floral as it warms. The taste begins with a blend of spicy and floral hop and slightly pine hop bitterness with a thin layer of resiny hoppiness banging around in there too. It gets more resiny with oily pine hops to midway while yielding a dash of bitter citrus here and there. The more I drink the more bitter and resiny it tends to get. This sets up a pretty solid stage to showcase Cascade hops where a smooth subtle malt backbone keeps this thing together. The bitterness and resiny hops linger well into the after taste.