6.6

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

Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a crystal clear gold colored body that supports a white head of foam. The aroma offers up some fruity esters and a bit of a corn sensation. The taste delivers a full array of lager essence as I get sweet pear and apple fruity esters, a mild spicy to maybe floral hoppiness and ending with a nice doughy to cracker maltiness. It ends fairly dry with modest to minimal sweetness pretty nice.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Can, best before 4/3/25, drunk 3/2/25.
Clear, dark with deep auburn highlights. Large, light tan head, clumpy.
Smells malty, with caramelized sugar, moderate roast and some nuttiness.
Clean and moderately malty with zippy roast, nuttiness, a hint of chewy malt but a fairly light body overall, for its size. Straightforward, maybe a bit more roast and strong nuttiness than I care for. Touch of fruity yeast and PNW hop lingering.

8.4

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

Canned 2/4/25, drunk 3/1/25.
Clear, robust blonde. Large, dense, creamy, almost creamy, white head.
Yeast, six-row-like graininess and a smattering of pepper and fruit from the hops. Clean and aromatic.
Flavorful and malty with good attenuation. Lots of honey and rustic grain with lightly fruity yeast. Gentle but ample bitterness. Tons of flavor and satisfying texture for its size.

8.6

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

Pint can pours with a crystal clear pure gold body that supports a nice white head of foam. The aroma offers up a dash of berry and citrus amid a thick cloud of inviting spicy dankness and steeped in a ring of onion. The taste delivers similar notes as faint berry, a teaspoon helping of mango and a sense of orange marmalade struggle against a firm degree of spicy dank onion like hoppy bitterness. Proper dank hoppiness engaged and I'm loving it.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

S: grapefruit - light pine - big biscuits A: clear golden body - thinnish pure white head T: white grapes - perfumey - soft grass P: hay - bitter malts - toffee O: predictable - easy malts - some bitterness 16 ounce can - Trader Joe's (grocery): Tempe/Phoenix, Arizona - purchased: 28-December-2024 - US$2,75 - canned: 26-November-2024 - sampled: by the pool on New Year's Day 2025 with my family of five in Scottsdale, Arizona, 01-January-2025

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My dernier cri.

8.1

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

Pint can pours with a dark colored body with thin mahogany hues and supporting a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up spicy to woody hops and heading quickly into dark roasted malts, a touch of dark roasted coffee and then moments of charred malts. The taste is firmly biased in the roasted malt direction with dark roasted malts to slightly dark roasted coffee to start. Behind the dark roasted malts are modest levels of spicy to woody to somewhat grapefruit hop bitterness. Nice CDA. It could be a bit more hop forward than it is. I dig it tho.

7.2

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

Golden-amber, medium head, good balance with a light caramel note, earthy hops. A well-made take on 90s IPA.

5.2

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

On tap at Tap That!, pours a clear dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma has bready malt and toasted caramel. Flavour has tired, old bready malt and some toasted caramel. Too old — malts are cardboardy. Meh.

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Day 2 starts!