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

Draft pour at Lone Oak. Poured a bright orange color, slightly hazy, small white head. Aroma was pleasant light pine, mild malt, caramel malts. Mild pineapple. Really easy to drink.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Super clear, beautiful copper and bronze coloured body with a slight orange glow and a thinnish, one to two centimetre tall tan head, along with a million bubbles rising from the bottom. Aroma of crisp, grassy and herbal hops with a piney scent as well, showing some malt and sweetness here, but the hops and associated bitterness seem strongest. Medium-bodied; Very deep and bitter, grassy, herbal and grapefruity notes dominate with a ton of bitterness, dryness and crisp notes, with a small amount of resin and syrupy sweetness and just enough malt for support, but this one is all about the strong and super pungent hops - with a lot of alpha acid bitterness throughout. Aftertaste is dry and grassy, with a very small dose of grapefruit and associated sweetness, but the hops are great here - very old school, West Coastie IPA styled in a very well-executed fashion! Overall, great to try, especially fresh and for someone who likes real hoppy IPAs, this old-school version is great - it tastes to me like a 'standard' West Coastie IPA, but perhaps Imperial Status is reached just from the hops and bitterness alone - the best way to be 'Imperial'! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from The Perfect Pour in Elkridge, Maryland on 25-October-2022 for US$5,25 canned on 19-July-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 17-November-2022.

Hazy amber body medium frothy white head. Resiny earthy toffee aroma. Citrus resiny caramel flavor. Medium full body moderate carbonation. 7/3/8/3/16 3.7