Cask@GBBF2009. Orange colour, not much head. Aroma is fruity, floral, grassy and a bit toffeeish as well. Flavour is very nicely balanced of the same. Lovely and pleasant balanced IPA. Grassy and fruity bitter aftertaste along with some toffeeish notes.

Cask@GBBF 2009. Orange, almost clear color, not much head. Intensive tropical fruity aroma, kiwi, mango, a bit resin. Citrusy, resiny hoppy juicy flavor. Pale malty. A bit thin but otherwise this is quite well-brewed IPA. Long lingering fruity bitterness in the aftertaste. One of the best beers at GBBF 2009.

Cask at GBBF 2009. Golden pour with a small white head. Hoppy, malty aroma. Hoppy, sweet, malty taste. A well balanced and delicious IPA from Oregon.

Draught @ the brewpub. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a malty hoppy bitter grapefruit aroma. Malty bitter hoppy flavor with hints of grapefruit. Has a malty hoppy bitter finish with a long bitter aftertaste.

Draft at Hood River Hops Fest 2007. An unclear amber beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of hay and fresh grass, and so is the flavor, leading to a dry bitter finish where notes of grass and grapefruit lingers.

Draft at the brewpub. Beautiful nose of cat p---. Great. Amber color with lacing white head. The flavor is just grapefruit on top of caramel. The finish resolves to decent grapefruit bitter. A great IPA.

Draught pint at Redbones on 10/14/07
Hazy apricot with lighter golden tints and a small white head that shows moderate retention, light lacing.
Peaches, oranges and a very healthy dose of lush, green, pine-like notes rise from the glass, growing ever more bitter, but initially coming off as quite aromatically-driven. Obvious sediment in suspension does have an effect on the finish, which is cut short by a bland doughiness and gains some astringent hop-tea-like character. Certainly a little more coarse filtration or conditioning would have helped here. That said, every subsequent sniff starts out marvelously well, with an almost cotton candy-like sweetness intertwined with the hop notes. These pale malt sugars otherwise stay out of the way of the hops. Despite the sediment blandness, the beer is clean and well-brewed. Aroma strength (at the start) is medium-high. No alcohol noted.
Big and chewy in the mouth, with fluffy carbonation and obvious protein and yeast suppleness, the flavor displays some of the lushness of the aroma, but seems to gain a bit too much sweetness (pale malt and light caramel). It ends starkly bitter, nearly astringent and with a touch of alcohol warmth. Hops are rather unfocused and messy, despite being fresh and enjoyable. Again, most of my problem here is with the conditioning of the beer, and this is the problem you encounter when your beers are never "fined, filtered or clarified" as their website says. Eventually the palate (mine anyways) succumbs to fatigue from the bitterness and sweet sugars, but not before some delicious retronasal hop notes.

Draught. Not much aroma here. I had to almost stick my nose into the ale to smell anything, and then there was just a slight hoppiness and some soapiness. Copper colour with slight white head. Hoppy flavour with piny and citrusy notes and more soapiness. Lingering hoppy flavour, with more soapiness. Could it have been a soapy glass?

Draft. Amber beer with a nice whitish head. Grapefruit aroma with malt backing. Grapefruit, pine, and light caramel flavor. Long bitter grapefruit finish. Medium body. Nice.

Slightly hazy amber. Lots of citrusy, fruity, woody hops...an indistinct blend of bright notes that tickles the nostrils. Chewy, resiny finish though the middle is weak on the malts. Woodsy hops glide throughout. Not half bad.