4.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Das nine gut. Sad. Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a near clear copper gold body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma offers up sweet fruity berry and apple esters blended with floral hops and a hit of cracker. The taste delivers all too much sweet estery fruitiness flowing into bitter floral hops that head into a bit of a ragged hop astringency. To midway it tries to improve with a faint cracker note surfacing just before being beaten back down with near astringent hop bitterness and sweet estery fruitiness into the finish.