8.4

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

Pint can pours with a clear gold body that supports a full lasting white head of foam. The aroma offers up inviting semi bright citrus as well as some spicy woody hops flowing into a bit of soft citrus juice and faint tropical notes. The taste delivers a fairly crisp mouthfeel as well as a meaty punchy hop bitterness. I get some grapefruit and tangerine slowing heading toward more orange like citrus hop flavor and a dash of soft tropical juiciness. It picks up wafer thin notes of spicy hops here and there too adding another tasty facet to the experience. Very nice and ending with little sweetness.

8.5

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

Pint can pours with a deep dark chocolate to black colored body that supports a moderately dark tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a bit of estery jamminess followed by dark roasted malts and then soft malts and toffee. The taste delivers a smooth fairly rich rush of sweet malts, dark roasted malts, a sliver of dark roasted coffee and then chocolate malts. Nice. This murmurs of sweet dark fruity esters faded to almost nothing after a few sips making me wonder if they were even there in the first place. I really dig a non adjunct big stout. This one does not disappoint.

6

S: apples - caster sugar - wheat A: slightly hazy golden body - thinnish white head T: pears (duh!) - grass - soft sugars P: crisp - light biscuits - apples O: interesting - moderately fruity - easy-going but not great 16 ounce can - Trader Joe's (grocery): Tempe/Phoenix, Arizona - purchased: 28-December-2024 - US$4,00 - sampled: by the pool on New Year's Day 2025 with my family of five in Scottsdale, Arizona, 01-January-2025

7.1

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

Poured up on tap at tipsy where it exhibits a near clear colored body supports a white head of foam. The mild aroma offers up a bit of cracker and lemon. The taste delivers a pleasing cracker maltiness flowing into a lemon like hoppiness. It ends a tad estery and sweet. Solid offering overall.

8.4

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

32oz crowler pours with a nice dark mahogany colored body that supports a full lasting light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a fair amount of blended integrated date, fig and prune like dark fruity esters as well as a sense of malt infused cinnamon. The taste delivers smooth slick blended sugars that mingle well with the integrated sweet dark fruity esters. To midway the malt base starts to bubble to the surface creating a Wee Heavy like flavor with various malts that include a dash of earthiness. Nice sipper but it comes across as about a 9% rather than what's listed. Well hidden ABV.

7.2

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

32oz crowler pours with an odd lookig murky dirty brown colored body that has thin copper to gold hued highlights and supports a nice off white head of foam. I don't think I've seen many IPA variants this dark in color as it looks more like an Old Ale. The aroma sets up notes of guava and mango muddled a bit by malts and blunted pine too woody like hoppiness. The taste delivers a blend of sweet malts and sweet dark fruity esters rolling quickly into a moderate degree of guava to cantaloupe tropical fruitiness created by the blend of hops and ester malt sweetness. To midway the bitter hoppiness grows just enough to provide a sense of balance against the sweetness. The bitterness is vaguely pine to floral to spicy hoppiness.

7.4

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

32oz crowler pours with a crystal clear deep copper colored body that supports a thin light tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up a bit of crystal malts and pine like hoppiness. The taste delivers a pleasing load of pine to earthy almost tobacco like bitter hoppiness. Behind the hops are notes of malts, slightly roasted malts and dark crystal like maltiness. Nice straight forward IPA.

6.9

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

Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a clear deep gold colored body that has orange to copper hues and supports a thin dirty white head of foam. The mild aroma offers up thin maltiness and soft thin smoke notes (hmmm?). The taste delivers a moderate sort of vague hop bitterness and then this evolves into a sense of pine flavor amidst a firm level of bitter dank and smoke rauch like notes. Wow. Interesting.

6.9

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

Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a clear deep gold colored body that supports a thin dirty white head of foam. The mild aroma offers up thin layers of smoke (what?), earthy smoke (hmm?), and a bit of citrus. Odd. The taste delivers a load of smoky ashy notes, thin bacony rauch and then a bit of bitter citrus rolling into faint citrus juice. The smokiness is odd but I'm rolling with it. Not sure how an IIPA ends up smoky like this.