7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Super hazy golden and peach coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall off-white head that fades very quickly and leaves just about nothing on top a few seconds later. Aroma of bright grassy and citrusey hop notes with a lot of bitterness from the alpha acids from the hops noticeable with a good malt backbone in the nose and some alcohol poking through as well. Medium-bodied; Relatively strong malt backbone shows at first with some light citrus and pine notes that gives way after a few seconds to a lot of pine and bitterness, all coming from the alpha acids of the hops with a pleasant, but mild sweetness on the end with some of the fruit notes cutting through the bitterness and the malts. Aftertaste shows a nice level of bitterness with some smoother malts and a crisp citrus flavour with some of the sweetness picked up from the fruits, along with some caster sugar notes, but ends pretty well. Overall,  a nice and crisp, robust, rich and flavourful IPA (bordering on Imperial status), that hits nicely and brings out some good aspects of the halibut and chips that i'm enjoying with it! I sampled this sixteen pour on draught at Humpy's (great Alaskan AleHouse) in Anchorage, Alaska on 05-October-2021 for US$8,50 sampled while here for the day on 05-October-2021.