7.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce can bought as part of a delivery from Raynville Superstore and drunk at home. Vinous aroma, big notes of currant, grape and blackberry. Hint of vanilla. Sweet taste, just a hint of tartness, with red grape juice, blueberry. A tad more tart in the finish. Thick body for the ABV with medium carbonation. Impressive sour.

8

Hoppy and fruity, pretty sweet. Stone fruit and citrus, some green grapes. Nice NZ spin on the original, very nice, a bit too sweet though.

7.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Draft at the Grayson Exhibit (A)le. Pours black, with a small, tan head. The aroma is green banana, chocolate syrup, caramel, and cinnamon. Very sweet and syrupy, with a light, grainy bitterness. Heavy, sugary, and slick. Quite aggressive and decadent.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

12 ounce bottle bought from Raynville Superstore as part of a delivery. Drunk at home. Impressively dark brown, opaque with the thinnest possible khaki head. Aroma of sweet, milky coffee, some lighter chocolate character. Complex it ain't but I am fond. The taste is wonderfully and intensely sweet, almost too sweet for me and certainly too much so for some. Thick body, I mean syrupy thick with the carbonation low to medium. I like it a lot.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can at home picked up from HOTM. A opaque hazed golden orange coloured pour with a lasting fluffy off white head. Aroma is nice floral citrus, lychee, pear, creamy wheat. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rounded, wheat, some oats, floral citrus, orange rind, opal fruits, midget gems, lychee. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, some alcohol bite, mellow carbonation. Nice.

7.1

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

30th August 2025
Panda thanks to Wingman. A mild to medium haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Airy palate, smooth and mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Airy pale malts, a light but forward creamy sweetness and, a fair amount of unwelcome grain. Very light pine into floral lime, a little hop spice, light stone fruits. Finishes light and semi dry. Hops are good but, something else going on here and, not in a good way. Fair amount of grain and there is on off flavour lurking about, hard to pin down, but just like that fly you can't see but hear, bloody annoying. A mixed bag.

7.5

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

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 27/08/2025.
Hazed orange with little in the way of a head.
Nose is raw pineapple, melon, mandarin, grass, papaya, subtle hop spice.
Taste comprises pineapple, mango, mandarin, guava, pine resin, papaya.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juice laden hop bitterness.
Okay DIPA if a little lifeless.

7.8

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

Can. Color: Very hazy orange, white head. Aroma: Hoppy,tropical fruit. Taste: Hoppy with a very smooth and quite dense malty base. Fruity blend of tropical fruit, melon, citrus fruit. Zesty notes. Over moderate sweet, moderate bitterness. Dry-ish bittery finish. Nice!

8.3

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

Bottle from Beerdome. Sweet with soy sauce, vanilla, bourbon, spicy notes, chocolate, some cinnamon, alcohol. Medium sweet, light bitter. Some booze. Rich with a lot going on.

8

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

Can at the DC Beer August Share. This one poured a hazy peach-orange color with a small white head. Flavor was bursting with peach and candy-like sweetness. A fun and tasty fruited sour.