Can. Misted golden amber with a small white head that lasts well. Sunny citrus aroma with bread and pine behind. So it tastes. I like the way orange or mandarin meet grapefruit here - the balance of citrus is excellent. Clean, light bread sweetness, medium high bitterness. Strong for what it offers but very polished.

19th April 2025
Panda thanks to Wingman. Possibly the most disagreeably named beer ever. Just a light haze on this gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, slightly soft, reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth pale malts, a fairly forward creamy sweetness. Soft pine. Quite the banana vibe here. Modest citrus. A pinch of hop spice on the finish also finds some candyish mango vibe. Messy, way too much banana unless there is some top secret banana inducing hop at work here.

Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 18/04/2025.
Almost clear golden orange topped with a white cap that thins to the edge.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, grapefruit, pine needle, straw.
Taste comprises orange pith, grapefruit, pine nip, melon, mandarin, light floral nip.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close spiked with grassy come lightly dankened hop bitterness.
Decent enough well balanced DIPA.
No esters for me ... Kenneth should have stuck this in a panda and aged for a month!

Panda at home, thanks to The Wingmane, 19/04/2025.
Almost clear golden orange with a couple of small floaters and topped with a white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, pine needle, grapefruit, hop spice.
Taste comprises bitter orange, grapefruit, lychee, pine needle, citric tinged straw.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with lightly aggressive juicy come grassy hop bitterness.
Tidy punchy TIPA ... a touch raw in places but holds a good bitter line and doesn't run sweet.

Magus, mõru, röst, puuviljane, lagrits. Ok.

13th April 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear amber beer, short and short lived bubbly pale tan head. Smooth palate, a mild dryness, decent fine carbonation. Soft malts, a light malt cream sweetness with toffee and caramel. Trace of esters. Ripe fruits, a little dried fruits. Comes together fairly well, some mild alcohol spice on the semi dry finish. One of those barleywines that shares a Venn intersection with a quad. Tasty all the same.

Can pour at Decibel Beer and Metal Fest: pours yellow with a white head. Aroma is light bread with some herbs. Taste is light bitterness. Bready. Solid.

At Decibel Beer and Metal Fest: pours black with beige head. Aroma is licorice and dark chocolate. Tasre is lightly bitter. Chocolate. Sweetish.