12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 9/27/2018. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep golden amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, spruce tips, peppercorn, pine, cracker, biscuit dough, light honey/toast, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, spruce tips, and bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, spruce tips, peppercorn, pine, cracker, biscuit dough, light honey/toast, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, spruce tips, peppercorn, pine, cracker, biscuit dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, spruce tips, and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, sticky/resinous/rindy, and fairly crisp balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7%. Overall this is a fantastic spiced IPA. All around out outstading complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, spruce tips, and bready malt flavors; very smooth, easy, and fairly crisp to drink; despite the fairly aggressively bitter/resinous/drying finish. Same great Columbus, Centennial, Chinook, Simcoe, Amarillo profile as the base beer; with complementing spruce tip notes that aren't overdone at all. Very juicy, vibrant, dank, and earthy balance hop/spruce tip complexity; nice bready malt backbone, with no residual sweetness from crisp resin dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and spot on West coast style example as expected.

Draft at Pour Taproom. When this one poured a clear bright gold I thought I had poured the wrong beer. And then I remembered that this is what IPAs used to look like. Nice spruce and pine aroma too. And a bitter resiny finish. Christmas trees in a glass.