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7.2

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

Keg at the Reservoir - Waterbury, VT. Pours clear gold with a light, white cream head. The nose holds pale bread, pine, citrus rind. Medium sweet flavour with straightforward bready pale malts, more rindy bitterness, oily pine, melon and orange. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming to finish, with faint anise, more pine needles, pale bread, melon. Good stuff.

6.9

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

On tap at Vermont Tap house.
This was poured into a tulip, still I get what’s going on.
The appearance was a ruby red color. Thin white head. Quick dissipation.
The smell takes on some sour fruitless (raspberries then some blueberries, somewhat tart, peach is super far underneath).
The flavor sticks mainly to the sour side of the wheelhouse. Fruitiness is far underneath. Sour shows a nice effort to stick in the aftertaste and pounds at the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation rides fairly light. Sour harshness hits well.
Overall, Berliner weisse, hmmmm....well, I liked it for me, but I didn’t get the \"sour-ed wheat\" portion that normally exists in these. I’d still have again.

5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Draught at Mystic Station, 7/9/16.
Moderately to lightly hazy, peachy-golden body is topped with a staunch white head.
Tons of pineapple, tangy and lightly sourish, with toasted malt (or is that just the twangy, sourish hops?) and lots of cracker-biscuit character. A fair amount of pine/grapefruit character, including the resinous part of it. Peach, orange rind and more citrus continue the assault, though the alcohol is well-concealed and the beer is clean otherwise.
Soggy, stewed, highly bitter hops throw off massive amounts of tangy, sour pineapple, tangerine, white grapefruit, peach and pine. Malts are mostly well-attenuated but the body is big and dextrinous, contributing to the palate fatigue. Engaging carbonation, but it’s not enough to make it drinkable in the face of all this resin/acidity. Very difficult to drink more than a few sips. Not sure why I keep having this experience with their DIPAs but this is the exact same problem I had with Dimorphic, though no one else seems to note it. Odd.

7.9

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

Draught at King’s Head, 7/4/16.
Medium haziness throughout this soft tangerine-golden body. White head atop is medium-sized and shows moderate to moderately strong retention.
Enigma strong and clear in the nose. Absolutely love this hop and it’s a great pleasure tracking down the surprisingly few examples of it out there. Lovely mix of Galaxy-like spicy/dankness with the deeper herbal-cherry-wine character that I adore in this hop. Difficult to describe but very intense, juicy and clean, with very low resin and no pine. Malts are fairly sparse behind it, adding just enough biscuit/cracker to balance. Ends on a softer/lighter, peach-nectarine note with no alcohol or flaw.
Juicy and tightly carbonated, the nectarine, fruity-wine and deep, lush, green dankness are excellently presented here. Malts add soft texture but are otherwise reserved and well-attenuated as no flaw or alcohol is noted. Everything is well done here, but it doesn’t have quite the finesse or intensity of Enigma Fort Point, though to be fair that one is about 2% higher in abv, so all things considered, this is right up there for its size.

8.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

375 ml shared by Willrunforbeer. Aroma is grassy and a nice floral hop elements. Light yeast. The flavor is just damn wonderful! Yeast, earthy, citrus, mild funky with a grassy hint in the finish. The body is lighter with a nice effervescent mouthfeel. Gosh, I could crush a ton of this. The over 7.4 percent is not found anyplace here, super easy.