5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Very hazy golden and straw coloured body with a nice-ish two centimetre tall pure white head that fades pretty quickly and doesn't leave anything up top or on the sides. Aroma of honey, resin, grapefruit, pine and a lot of astringent, super pungent alcohol, metallic and deep bitterness - in the nose, at least. Medium-bodied; Very rich and super astringent alcohol and strong bitterness from the alcohol, metal and strong malt components, with some softer orange and grapefruit notes, but the astringency and pungent dry bitterness is strongest. Aftertaste shows almost no malt components with no real body detected, only a touch of flowers and dryness, but the pungency and strength of the alcohol is very noticeable throughout, not showing any signs of letting up, and is really the only strong flavours here at all. Overall, this was far from what I was expecting, and is very poor overall - there is haze and an unfiltered quality, but literally everything else is poor - no malt backbone, no fruits, no complexity, no sugars, just a thin, astringent and pungent alcohol bite that shows metallic, deep flavours and nothing nice. Not worth trying to find, even if you like their music...glad to have this after leaving New York today, but not worth bringing back down, even easily on the train like I did! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Whole Foods in New York (NoMad, 28th Street), New York on 03-December-2022 for US$4,99, canned on 08-November-2022 with the tagline 'Cuatro' on the bottom and sampled at my house here in Washington after returning from New York again, on 16-January-2023.