7.6

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

Poured up at AZ Strong Beer Fest 2017, where this was sampled at the State 48 booth and stated as a collaboration with Black Bridge (it is likely this batch was brewed at Black Bridge and is not a new version of Cliffdweller) where it exhibits a hazy deep gold body that supports a near white head of foam. The aroma offers up pine hops, sort of citrus cotton candy and then a mild floral and hop grassiness. The taste delivers bitter pine and bitter floral hops that kind of marry together. Toward midway the pine ratchets up into a sappy resininess. The bitterness gets to robust levels as a light sense of citrus hops help take this toward the finish. This is not my favorite hop profile but this is still a solid rich intense IIPA and the ABV is very well hidden.