7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 8
Draft: Dank daffodil, dandelion, and pineapple bouquet, grapefruit also. Hazy golden, medium head. Lillies, daffodil, grapefruit, and lemon zest. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Dank, floral and fruity.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2017
at 15:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Part of their mixed bag variety pack in Vermont for Easter 2017. Pour a very slight hazed golden colour with a warm cap with creamy lacing. Very IPA kind of noise with fresh citrusy-grassy hops. The taste has some sweetness and grain of a California Common, but the hops come in strongly in the finish. Some nice citrus notes, but really seems like an IPA. Only hints of the grain instead of the caramel malts.
Tried
on 18 May 2017
at 01:23
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Part of their Mixed Bag 12-pack. Hazy golden colour with a soapy off-white and lacing. Citrus juice aromas of oranges and grapefruits. The mouthfeel is not as dry as expected, as quite hoppy overall. Grapefruit taste with again, oranges. Really well-blended IPA with both fruits being balanced.
Tried
on 18 May 2017
at 01:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy pale. No head. There’s a bit of mangoish fruit a touch of that Galaxy gooseberry...vague citrus as well, but overall a nice aroma. This has a lot of galaxy hop note, nice clean pale malts, gets a bit dank in the end, too.
Tried
on 11 May 2017
at 23:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz. bottle, pours a cloudy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out lightly dank hops, some pine, some tropical fruits and biscuity malt. Flavour is very fresh, with a lovely dank hop character, some piney notes, light weed, and biscuity malt. Fresh, green and very well-balanced. Really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2017
at 23:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Poured into a nonic pint glass, the appearance was a pale burnt orange color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off at a decent pace. Sly lace.
The aroma had some citrusy zest, good citrusy hoppy bitterness, grassy hops and a little big of sweet malt.
The flavor blended it together somewhat nicely but kept that separated sort of taste between the hops and the malts as it didn’t seem cohesive enough. Sweet citrusy aftertaste rolling into the same sort of finish.
The feel was about medium bodied, perhaps just a tad under, pretty sessionable. Good dose of hop abrasion but not too strong along my tongue. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, nothing overly the top with this one, but it’s not bad when there’s nothing else around.
The aroma had some citrusy zest, good citrusy hoppy bitterness, grassy hops and a little big of sweet malt.
The flavor blended it together somewhat nicely but kept that separated sort of taste between the hops and the malts as it didn’t seem cohesive enough. Sweet citrusy aftertaste rolling into the same sort of finish.
The feel was about medium bodied, perhaps just a tad under, pretty sessionable. Good dose of hop abrasion but not too strong along my tongue. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, nothing overly the top with this one, but it’s not bad when there’s nothing else around.
Tried
on 05 May 2017
at 15:56
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draught at Brendan Behan’s, 2/24/17.
Mostly clear, tangerine-honey colored beer with a medium-sized white head atop showing moderate retention.
The nose is quite vibrantly full of strong pineapple, white grapefruit and spicy, leafy, dank and woody greenery. Light biscuit and sourdough in the background as the malts gently balance. No alcohol or flaw but it’s a bit on the resinous side, it would seem.
And the flavor confirms and then some...damn, this is some bitter shit. Way too much pine, grapefruit and lime with dry pineapple, and fairly "hard" malt notes not doing much to soften the blow. Peppery carbonation doesn’t help either with fatiguing bitterness, sweat and cracker over-drying the palate.
Mostly clear, tangerine-honey colored beer with a medium-sized white head atop showing moderate retention.
The nose is quite vibrantly full of strong pineapple, white grapefruit and spicy, leafy, dank and woody greenery. Light biscuit and sourdough in the background as the malts gently balance. No alcohol or flaw but it’s a bit on the resinous side, it would seem.
And the flavor confirms and then some...damn, this is some bitter shit. Way too much pine, grapefruit and lime with dry pineapple, and fairly "hard" malt notes not doing much to soften the blow. Peppery carbonation doesn’t help either with fatiguing bitterness, sweat and cracker over-drying the palate.
Tried
on 12 Apr 2017
at 16:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Got in a BIF from Roguer. 16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 2/9/2017. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, apricot, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, papaya, guava, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, light honey, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/tropical/fruity hops and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, papaya, guava, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, light honey, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine/grassy/citrus peel/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of tangerine, grapefruit, peach, apricot, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, papaya, guava, lemon/orange peel, pepper, pine, toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical/fruity hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and minimal lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from lingering bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and lightly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 7%. Overall this is an outstanding IPA! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical/fruity hops and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink from the modest bitterness. Very bright, juicy, and dank on hops; nice malt backbone, without feeling sweet. Fairly tame feeling bitterness at first from the malt balance, but dries out really nicely without being astringent. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2017
at 19:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
2 month old bottle > chalice. A: Poured a finger of tight froth that retained well on a clear pale gold body. No visible bubbles but sheets of lace. S: Fresh oranges and sweet bread dough. T: Resinous and bitter. Pith and zest out front with a hint of alcohol and baked bread rather than dough. Citrusy aftertaste. M: Resin and a slight chewiness. Medium bodied finishing wet and sticky. O: Unsure if it’s great or poor but definitely different and interesting. Overall though not what I generally look for in a lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2017
at 16:38