On tap at Threefold. Pours clear amber with an off-white head. Bright pine and toasted bread on the nose. Flavour has a dry, toasty base, cracker malts, good piney hop expression, and a very subtle soft doughiness that betrays the fresh hop. Very nicely done.

Poured from 473mL can (pkg 29 Oct 2025). Clear dark amber brown with small light beige head. Toasted bread malt with touch of caramel malt, soft pine hops, decent.

Poured from 473mL can. Clear gold with white head. Mild grain, soft grass hops, clean and crisp, decent.

Poured from the tap @ Steamworks Mount Pleasant. Clear gold with small white head. Very soft grainy funk with feint saaz hops. Above average.

On tap at Beva, pours a clear dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma is fairly laid-back, with soft resinous hops, toasted bready notes, and a touch of pine. Flavour is well-hopped and well-balanced, with dry resinous hops, some woody pine, and dry bready caramel malt. Not sure I’d pick up on the fresh hops, but the bitterness is on the lower side, which might be a result of the fresh hops. Great hop expression and structure. Less aggressive the recent red IPA collab with Brassneck, but nearly as good.

On tap at Beva, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma has notes of medium roast coffee, dry cocoa powder, and a touch of artificial hazelnut. Flavour has a solid roasted malt base, with plenty of coffee, some cocoa, but the hazelnut flavouring somewhat ruins the malt complexity with a rather artificial character. I know it’s hard to use real nuts, but the flavourings almost never do justice to the real thing, and this is no exception. There’s a good beer here that would be better without the hazelnut flavouring. As is, this doesn’t really work for me.

On tap at Beva, pours a clear bright copper golden with a small wire head. Nose is very malty, with big caramel malt, some tropical notes, light allium, and some resinous hop oils. Flavour is definitely maltier for a WCIIPA, with lots of sweet caramel malt, resinous hop oils, and a touch of tropical character. Over-malted and under-attenuated for my tastes but still pleasantly assertive hops. Reasonably made but not my kind of WCIIPA.

On tap at Beva, pours a dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is dominated by earthy, toasted malt, and a bit of crusty rye bread. Flavour is fairly timid, tasting more like a dunkel than a schwarz, with a timid malt base… just some toasted notes, not much else. Clean and drinkable, but nothing special.

On tap at Beva, pours a clear amber with a small white head. Nose is legit, with toasted caramel malt, bready notes, and some straw. Flavour is malty and yet dry, with lots of dry caramel, toasted bready malt, and straw. Really nice malts, attenuated out, and good depth for the style. Very solid.

On tap at Beva, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has notes of straw, subtle herbaceous hops, and bready malt. Flavour is clean, with straw and bready malt; a bit muffled and lacking clarity, which kind of destroys the point of this style. Not bad but not great.