Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Hazy golden-amber color with nice creamy eggshelly head. Aroma is dank, floral, earthy hops, citrus and peach, resinous, tropical fruits, some toasted malts. Taste is toasted malts, dank, resinous, spicy, earthy, again peach and floral hops. Oily mouthfeel. These people really show a supreme knowledge of how to use their fresh hops. Again: supremely drinkable, and very nicely inserted spicy-earthy "old world" hop flavours.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can, thanks luttonm. Upon opening the can, an aroma of floral-earthy fresh hops sprays the room, within seconds, and up to several feet away - incredible. Pours hazy yellow-to-golden color with nice white head. Aroma is floral-earthy pure hops, grapefruits. Taste is floral-earthy, spicy, incredibly nicely hopped, pale malts. Medium carbonation with a slightly silky mouthfeel. An amazing floral-earthy Pale Ale. Something for locals, and I am grateful I could try it in such a great condition. Totally underrated (albeit more old-worldy than fancy and aroma-hoppy), and immensely drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Back log On tap at the tap station west Seattle. Pours out a golden copper topped with a white head. Nose is dank hops some soft tropical fruit notes aswell and a nice caramel sweetness. Taste is more of the nice tropical fruits citrus pineapple some caramel sweet malts and a little bread.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. dank tropical hop nose, citrus, pine. Cloudy golden color. Nice biscuity malts with very dank and tropical and piny hops. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Elizabeth Station. Pours a clear pale golden with a white head. Aroma is topical fruits, citruses. Taste is piney bitterness. Same aftertaste. Good.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
12oz can, courtesy of riversideAK, pours with a near clear gold body that supports a white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple and a mild malt sensation. The taste delivers a pleasing blend of juicy and bitter hops. I get bitter grapefruit and tangy pineapple bleeding into grapefruit and tangerine like hop juicy bitterness. The bitterness grows deeper into the sipping experience but remains restrained and cohesive. This is a real nice drinking IIPA that borders on being dangerously so.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
It’s a clear gold with a giant head of foam. Dank grassy resinous pine hop bouquet. Light bodied, zesty carbonation with a dry finish. Clean fresh hoppy flavor, citrus, prickly pear, dank pine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can, thanks to 5000. Pours slightly cloudy dark golden yellow with large foamy light beige head, citrusy hops aroma, medium carbonation, initially sweet medium bitter orange peel taste, smooth body, long medium bitter hoppy finish. Very smooth and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Elizabeth Station with Ash. Pours a clear coppery golden with a tan head. Aroma is sweet tropical fruits, very fresh. Taste is pretty the same with piney and herbal bitterness. Strong piney bitterness aftertaste. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft pour pint at Cloudburst. Try 2.0 of this beer. Had at Toronado a little while back and something seemed weird. Every beer deserves at least a second chance. Seems like Bale Breaker feels the same way. Besides, it’s a perfect day out for a beer like this. Fresh, grassy hop aroma. Creamy body, hop bitter covered by a unique sweetness. Not quite a fruit sweetness. Something I don’t even know about! Refreshing as an overall. Creamy, and exploding with hops. Two hop masters teaming up. This ultimately lead to my expectations being very high. Maybe too high. Overall, still a crusher the second time through.