6.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Funky, hazy and ghostly white, lavender and light indigo coloured body with a massive, ugly, super fast-dying off-white head that leaves a nasty lace on the side of the glass above the 80 per cent opaque body. Aroma of lactose, light fruits, apricot, wheat, yeast and some bread, but no real hop scents. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong funky wheat and yeast flavours show at first with some actual noticeable hop bitterness that's dry and slightly perfumey, that finishes with some very light blueberry and cranberry flavours with a lot of supportive wheat notes and even more lactose and icing sugar at the end. Aftertaste shows a robust wheat kick from the rich malts, some decent hop bitterness and a surprising alcohol bite, with a lot less of the fruits than I expected. Overall, I'm usually very skeptical of these types of IPAs, but this has real bitterness, a decent balance, a ton of carbonation and not much fruitiness at all - probably a good thing, since this is respectable - nice to try! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Gettysburg Beer Mart in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on 31-January-2023 for US$4,89, canned on 11-August-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 25-May-2023.