Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Clear golden colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have plenty of malt sweetness with a hint of caramel. It's floral and quite resinous. Slight note of aniseed too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can, 0.355l. Aroma is citrusy, piney and grainy. Pours clear amber color with thin soapy off-white head, fair lacing and sparkling appearance. Taste starts refreshing piney and herbal, following is bready and faint citrusy, mouthfeel is crisp and dry, while finish is prettybitter. Light to medium body, slick texture and lively carbonation in palate. Palefresher…
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Golden, cloudy with a medium white head. Lots of hoppines aroma. Medium bitter with a juicy fruity and hop end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught @ Draught 55, Manhattan (Feb 2024). Murky dark brown with a very small frothy beige head, faintly acidic caramel aroma, low carbonation, medium bitter caramel taste with some citrusy flavor, thin body, long caramel finish. Interesting flavors.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tons of lemon here. Heavy on citrus--not so much pine like the label says. Clear golden pour with decent head. Super hop tang lemony end. Can.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Copper colour with lasting soapy head. Very malty but with a resinous hoppy note too. Really smooth. Could drink this by the litre.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Golden colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have piney hop notes. Resin too. Solid malt base. Good bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Murky dull orange colour with soapy head. Has lots of pithy citrus fruits. Maybe too much actually. It's drifting too far away from beer and offers no balance.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very hazy golden coloured body with a fairly thin, one centimetre tall off-white and light tan head that caps the beer nicely above the 80 per cent opaque body. Aroma of honey, flavours, grass, hay and resin and a small dose of grapefruit and lemons. Medium to Full-bodied; Pretty rich and resinous hop notes show at first with a good alpha acid punch and some smooth, but strong wheat and oat malts that provide good balance, but seemingly add to the bitterness quotient. Aftertaste is pretty hop-forward with some grapefruit and stone fruit notes, but the dryness, pungency and astringency here is strong, perhaps a bit overpowering - especially for the alcohol content. Overall, not such a great IPA - much too pungent and resinous throughout with some Imperial Status in terms of bitterness, but not enough balance here that makes this more drinkable - it's not so great and definitely a passable beer here in this series. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Newport News, Virginia on 20-November-2022 for US$4,99, canned on 06-June-2022, made it into the store on 20-July-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 20-June-2023.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Very hazy deep and golden coloured body with a thin white head, only one centimetre tall above the 90 per cent opaque body with some small bubbles still rising from the sides. Aroma of alcohol, honey, caster sugar, grass with some biscuity malts, too - strong in the nose. Full-bodied; Ultra rich oaty malts hit first, but the very astringent and aggressive medicinal and bitter hops & alcohol are strongest and don't go down easily, with some light aspartame and orange notes near the end, but the alcohol burn is strong here. Aftertaste is deep, but the astringent alcohol burn with the medicinal flavours, strong malt & grainy notes with nothing real pleasant on the end, makes this pretty bad overall - much worse than others in this series! Overall, a VERY bad & passible option and with some stand out GOOD beers from this series, these beers are really all over the map in a bad way & you never really know what you're going to get until you open it and try it! This one is plain bad - too pungent, strong and not showing nearly any good notes. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine (Store #214) in Fairfax, Virginia on 23-April-2023 for US$6,49, canned on 10-October-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 30-May-2023.