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

Very hazy golden and straw coloured body with a pretty large two to three centimetre tall tan and off-white head on top. Aroma of soap, light grainy and biscuity malts with a kick of aspartame and honey, with some deep Azacca and funky malt scents - a bit odd. Medium-bodied; Fairly rich malt notes show at first and at least provide nice support for the syrupy, slightly resinous hop notes that offer up a little pine and grassiness, with a herbal finish and a dash of bitterness at the end, and the overarching aspartame notes. Aftertaste is dry, pretty malty, with a kick of grass and pine here, but also a floral and resinous bite from the alpha acids of the hops. Overall, a decent enough IPA that mostly shows as new school, with a slight bitterness, but this is pretty smooth and definitely not showing Imperial Status. Nice to sample very fresh, but this one isn't for me - but I do like the label at least! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Harris Teeter in Arlington (Pentagon Row), Virginia on 28-June-2022 for US$1,87 (part of a mixed six pack), canned on 16-June-2022 and sampled at my house here a few blocks away on 27-August-2022.