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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Slightly hazy golden and copper coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall pure off-white head. Aroma of astringent grain, alcohol, yeast and some biting citrus and deeper hops with a strong scent that leads to more of a floral and grassy vibe throughout. Medium-bodied; Strong astringent alcohol and grainy notes with a pungent hop bite that perhaps shows the Azacca with a strong, flavourful punch that is balanced by a good deal of malt and finished with some lighter sugars and citrus notes which try to balance it out, but it's quite hard given the pungent hop varietal used here. Aftertaste shows some malts, a light spicey component, some light sugars from fruit, but mostly the bittered hop component shines through, perhaps in a good way, but at least in a definitive way. Overall, a stronger 'traditional' IPA that shows the hop flavours and at a minimum is full-flavoured and pungent without being cloying or overpowering - that said, I still don't like these hops too much! I sampled this sixteen ounce can, purchased from Joe Canal's in Lawrenceville, New Jersey on 22-June-2019 for US$2,99 sampled at home in Washington on 30-August-2019.