Bottle from Beernavigator. Hazy amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. A bit thin. 191016

Bottle @ Johns. Pours slightly hazy golden with an offwhite head, light lacings. Aroma of light malt, light old hops, grassy fruit. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, malt, grass, fruity hops. Medium body, average carbonation, light bitter finish. 181016

Bottle, 8.2%. Hazy golden with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, earthy, hops, little peach and a little citrus. Flavour is malt, earthy, little citrus, little grapefruit, medium sweet and medium bitter.

Bottle @ Aarhus tasting, my place. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are rich hops, fruits, malt, grass and fruits. Nice bitter grassy finish.

Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Cloudy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - fruity. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 181016

I’ve recently gotten over my unwarranted prejudice of this brewery based on it’s name. Dusty dirty blond beer frothy head. Nose is grapefruit and light pine very inviting. Tastes of mango, grapefruit, grassy, toasted grains, slight bubblegum. Creamy and fruity mouthfeel, slight bitterness. Pretty good.

American BIPA hopped with Centennial and brewed at Shipyard. Quite fierce gusher, spouting from the bottle neck one second after opening, but I managed to capture most of it - the few centiliters that got away are for the angels, I guess. Thickly cobweb-lacing, pale greyish beige, ’papery’ head with good edge retention, moussy and irregular, leaving an intricate web of thin beige foam in the middle; lightly hazy, very dark burgundy robe with warm mahogany hue, more or less blackish in general appearance, but completely translucent. Aroma perfectly fits the time of the year, with hints of pine wood, cedar needles, sourishly fermenting tree leaves, burnt tree branches, moist leather, moldy walnuts on a damp forest floor, dried forest mushrooms, dried fig, black tea, ripe elderberries, blackcurrant, burnt toast, soggy brown bread, old nutmeg, dried out pipe tobacco, hazelnut shells, charcoal, the white underside of grapefruit peel, salmiak, very dry red wine and something not unlike very dry manure - no offense, as this feature seems to fit in well. Sourish elderberries, unripe figs and brambleberries show up in the onset, lively but offering only the slightest hint at plum-like sweetness; umami, however, is very present to counterbalance the sourishness, in a dried mushroom kind of way; carbonation is spritzy (not surprising considering the violent gushing) and minerally, adding to the sourish effect, and mouthfeel is coarsened a bit by this, though otherwise remains supple and smooth. Dark malt core in the middle, a tad nutty but almost instantly shifting to toasted bitter and almost gaining a coffeeish roasted bitterness as the palate progresses - but before the latter comes to development, hops take over as is to be expected from the style, with a spicy, resinous, dried grapefruit peel- and pine needle-like bitterness, aromatic enough and at the same time bittering the back of the mouth. Ashy remnants of the roasted malts come through in the end and a subtle but noticeable whisky-like alcohol effect shows up, but the resinous, grapefruity and piney hop force wins and lasts for a long time after swallowing. Another beer today which made me mad because of fierce gushing but turned out interesting and appealing in the glass, this is a very typical and decent example of Cascadian dark ale - almost evoking a walk through a sombre, autumny pine forest, which is the (admittedly gloomy) kind of atmosphere I hope to find in this particular style of beer. Aromatic, bitter but not harsh, with a good balance between dark roasted maltiness and fragrant Centennial pine aromas: if it weren’t for the gushing, I’d recommend this as a perfect introduction to the black IPA style.

On tap at The Clover Club, pours hazy golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out grassy hops and some floral notes. Flavour is dry, full of grassy hops and biscuity malts. Dry and nicely, with a nice balance between hops and malt. Solid.

12 oz. bottle purchased at Greg & Jane’s Epping, NH. Hazy yellow appearance with thin lasting head. Aroma is lemongrass, coriander, and wheat.

Wheat backbone with a sturdy amount of lemongrass and coriander seed leading to herbal pop that give it some lively character. Crisp and refreshing body. The lemongrass maybe a tad over-played but... all considered, decent.