8

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

Poured from a 16 oz can dated March 05, 2025.
Aroma is adjunct forward with lots of vanilla and cacao. Moderate malt notes with chocolate and lighter notes of roast, caramel and toffee. Light alcohol notes.
Pours black with a medium large, thick mocha head that recedes steadily to a small film that lingers on the edges. Light lacing and moderately long legs.
Flavor is rather sweet with lots of chocolate malt notes and lighter roast, caramel and toffee notes. Lots of cacao and lighter vanilla. Medium bitterness and medium alcohol notes.
Mouthfeel is full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth.
Overall, a solid imperial stout. I haven't had a non barrel aged one in a while, but this is nice. Nice adjunct notes especially in the aroma. Alcohol is well hidden.

7.4

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

8.5

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

16 oz. can, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma sure brings out the Riwaka, with tons of white wine, melon, and piney hops. Flavour is bright, biting and tangy, with white wine tang, piney hops, some melon, and crisp biscuity malt. Perhaps the taste isn’t quite as invigorating as the nose, but damn that’s a nice construction.

8.5

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

16 oz. can, pours a clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma has bright piney hops, some resinous hop oils, light tropical melon, and a thin biscuity malt base. Flavour is much the same, bursting with bright piney, citrusy hops, tropical melon, and a surprisingly thin biscuity malt base for a IIIPA. Ridiculously well-balanced, more of a blonde IPA with a wonderfully vibrant hop expression. Wonderful.

8.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

473mL can. Pours clear gold with a white head. Pine, sweet malts, and yuzu on the nose. Flavour is jammed full of hops, bright pine, yuzu, melon; sweet malts. Very well-balanced, strong hop flavours and a reasonably thick body. This is excellent.

6.5

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

Draft. Black beer with a tan head. Chocolate and citrus aroma. Citrus and chocolate favor with herbal notes. Medium bodied. Citrus and light herbal notes linger with light caramel and light chocolate.

7.3

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

Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Dank and earthy aroma with grapefruit. Grapefruit and earth flavor with light pine. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and dankness linger with light pine and backing malt.

6.9

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

Can. Golden beer with a cream head. Grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with earth. medium bodied. Grapefruit and pine linger with earth.

6.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pint can pours with an opaque gold body that has wafer thin coppers hues and supporting an off white head of foam. The aroma offers up sugary mango cotton candy and orange sherbet and deeper in it gets into guava and cantaloupe. The taste delivers soft sweet mango and guava that builds into some sugary orange sherbet. This attains timid citrus hop tanginess. It is really ruled by soft sweetness that just doesn't let up. Ended up too sweet to finish.