09/08/2011 Brasserie 4:20 (330ml bottle). Ambrata intensa, vivissima, limpidissima, bel cappello di schiuma biancastra, molto persistente nonostante la gradazione alcolica elevata. Aroma intenso di alcol (abbastanza invadente), luppoli, resina, caramello. In bocca è dolciastra, non così amara nel complesso, ma ben bilanciata, con note alcoliche ben in evidenza e forse un po’ eccessive. Non così bevibile come leggo sopra. Corpo medio, carbonazione corretta. Discreta.

Bottle.Clear medium orange colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, pine, resin, grapefruit, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110804]

Bottle @ GBBF, 2011. Pours unclear golden with a creamy white head. Pine, grape and peach. Dry hoppy and very bitter. Medium bodied.

Bottled@GBBF2011. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, alcohol, wood, some mild nectar as well as some honeyish notes. Flavour is sweet malts, some fruits, nectar, wood and mild earthy notes.

Tap. Hazy amber with an inch of thick off-white head. Complex hoppy aroma with nectarines, lychees, gooseberries, kumquats, pine. Maybe some biscuit lurking there too. Only brooding hop aromas, nothing heady - but nice all the same.Taste has modest sweetness, alcohol, light biscuit, lots of stone fruits, passionfruit, lychees. Bitter finish is fruity with some pine, but falls away quickly. Some heat from the alcohol at the end. The Icon is much more my sort of thing.