Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Tulip at the brewery - hazy red - aroma of tart cherries, some spices, clove, pepper - initially, the flavor presents a lot of buttery diacetyl on the front end, which is really distracting and problematic - thankfully, this subsides a great deal as it opens up, but is always slightly present in the background - malt structure is rich, but mostly dry and toasty, with just a bit of sweetness - yeast provides some peppery phenolics, earthy/dusty character, light esters of banana - similar to a dunkelweizen in character - it’s actually pretty nice, aside from the one flaw - clean up the diacetyl and you’ll have a winner, as he yeast is otherwise nicely expressive here.