4.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Light pink orange from a pounder can. Nose is light maraschino cherry. First taste is ale-ish with a backbone of cherry. Not quite maraschino, more like artificial cherry if you ask me. Not sure if I'd call this a radler or a shandy, maybe more like a fruit beer of sorts. Different, seems to remind me of cherry cough medicine for some reason. Nose goes a little veggie in the middle, very weird. Not sure what to think about this mess of a brew. Yea, hah, right on the can it says its artificial flavors, who would put that on the front of the can? Well, at least its not trying to fool anybody. Decent co2 keeps your mind of the artificial aspects. In the end this is just another artificially fruity beer. There, you have it. Did not care much for this one, tho acceptable for a tik. Keep in mind I'm not one much for maraschino cherries.

5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Second tick at the CLT Priority lounge. Free tick to dilute the cost the rest of year. Pint glass, medium pissy gold, barely registers a head but active. Sharp grain, industrial nose. Soft & grainy, lightly sweet, medium low acid, very faint tartness & premium lager notions. Slight toast & yeasty-ness on the tail. Syrupy feel in between inconsistent bubbles. Slightly better than a Bud. It's alright.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

$3.57 pounder from Appalachian. Pint glass at home. Hazy, cascading honey gold pour with ample head. Candied cherry with a little orange & cola syrup nose. Very faint wheat. Hearty wheat base. Itchy & starchy. Noticable extra maraschino cherry juice, it's stronger than the added Cheerwine. It makes it more fruity & less medicinal. Boozy, full bubbles, medium sweet, leaning off-dry. Follow through is definitely more orange & ham spices. Itchy, dry-ish, plenty carbed finish. This is one of the better gimmicky beers I've had. Happy 4th, kiddos.

8.4

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Super clear, bright copper coloured body with a nice orange glow, a perfect three centimetre tall, microfoamed tan head and zillions of bubbles rising from the bottom - simply beautiful! Aroma of alcohol, resin, grapefruit, pine, flowers and a good deal of malts - very nice in the nose, too. Full-bodied; Pretty astringent, medicinal, but very hoppy, bitterness from pine and resin, but some good malts are here as well, with some good balance, but the majority of the flavours are on the hoppy side of things, with some pungency of course from alcohol and resin, but the hops and sugar finish this off nicely. Aftertaste is rich, super strong and pretty bitter of course, but the alcohol, resin and astringent hops are the strongest here and last long. Overall, a definite old-school Imperial IPA with a deep, pungent, medicinal bitterness from the alpha acid hops, but a lot of resinous sweetness make this rich and strong for a long time - very nice to have as someone who lived through the Imperial IPA craze of the mid 2000s - this seems like a good throwback! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Trader Joe's [grocery] in Morrisville (Cary), North Carolina on 10-June-2023 for US$4,00, canned on 11-January-2023 (as #1123 on the bottom of the can) and sampled at my house here in Washington on 03-July-2023.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Ever so slightly hazy light golden and soft blonde coloured body with a very frothy off-white head that stays afloat for a long time above the 10 per cent opaque body. Aroma of grass, hay, lemons, nectarines and a soft sweetness - nice in the nose and quite hoppy. Medium-bodied; Super dry, floral and grassy flavours show up first with a big kick of grass, lemon zest, hay and pefumey notes that are very nice, old-school and alpha acid bitterness-centric - very nice as a West Coastie IPA. Aftertaste is fairly well-balanced with some crisp, slightly biscuity malt notes right up front, but the deep, bitter and astringent hops are stronger, as they should be for the style. Overall, a nice, crisp beer throughout that shows the hops well, has almost no fruity or sweet qualities and doesn't show ANY Imperial Staus qualifications at all - this is pure 'plain' West Coastie IPA in an old school sense and it's very well-executed and worth trying to find - nice! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Trader Joe's (grocery) in Morrisville [Cary], North Carolina on 10-June-2023 for US$4,00, canned on 01-May-2023 (#1183 on bottom of the can) and sampled at my house here in Washington on 20-June-2023.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

S: oranges - papaya - oats A: super hazy straw yellow body - thin ehad T: tropically - icing sugar - curaçao P: wheatie - soft - vanilla O: creamy throughout - easy-drinking - fresh hops 12 ounce can - Trader Joe's (grocery): Chapel Hill, North Carolina - purchased: 14-May-2024 - canned: 06-March-2024 - US$2,17 - sampled: 24-May-2024

7

Hazy dull amber body small foamy.off white head. Spicy bready earthy aroma. Funky spicy herbal flavor. Full body moderately low carbonation. 7/2/7/4/14 3.4

5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

16 oz. can, thanks to Tim. Pours a reddish, orange color, with a smallish, pink-white head. The nose is cherry cough drops and grenadine. Straw, licorice, and quinine. Sweet and sugary. Light, effervescent, and sticky. Pretty poor.

7.4

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pineapple, orange, biscuit malt, earthy pine, and grapefruit peel aroma. Cloudy pale yellow with large white head. Moderately sweet pineapple, orange, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter pine and grapefruit peel flavor. Good body.