8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Very cloudy, deep and straw yellow coloured body, with even some hints of beige and light muddied copper, all with a very nice, microfoamed tan head, about four centimetres tall - beautiful and 95 per cent opaque. Aroma of grapefruit, pungent resinous hops, a lot of bitterness from alpha acids, some alcohol and quite a bit of grassiness noticeable. Medium to Full-bodied; Very bitter, grassy and dank, resinous hop notes shine through, with a grapefruit, herbal and perfumey finish, but a lot of bitterness here and a good deal of rich malts to support the hops, but the bitterness and dank qualities of the hops shows stronger. Aftertaste shows the floral and piney hop notes with a lot of bitterness still remaining and a subdued sweetness that is noticeable, but isn't cloying and not comparable to the amount of malt and especially hops here. Overall, a very nice beer, definitely on the older-school side of things, with a nice bitterness, solid malt backbone and smooth sweetness - but the format is crazy - a twelve ounce can would be much nicer for such a 'big' beer - great to sample very fresh and well-recommended if you can find it and to be honest - handle it (I don't know if I really can!). I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from The Perfect Pour in Elkridge, Maryland on 25-October-2022 for US$4,99 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 15-November-2022.
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from Can
on 10 Feb 2024
at 06:47