Pours hazy gold into a shaker. Bright white head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Tropical fruit aromas. Dry with mango and yeast upfront turning dry in the lasting resin finish.

Pours black into a snifter. Dark chocolate, bourbon and vanilla aromas. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Dark hot chocolate and soy upfront turning to warm vanilla and bourbon before the lasting dry oaked espresso finish.

East Coast IPA shared with tderoeck, Ster and Erwin at tderoeck’s place. Very thick, frothy, dense, egg-white head, stable and leaving steady lacing over a hazy orange blonde beer with ochre-ish hue. Aroma of lime blossom, grapefruit peel, limoncello, ripe papaja, granadilla, strawberry, soggy sandwiches, lemon-scented hand soap, green banana. Lively fruitiness in the onset, passionfruit, starfruit and mango, some drier green banana too, medium carbo, slick and slightly soapy mouthfeel. Cereally, lightly bready malt middle supports an aromatic hop character, yielding lovely tropical fruit aromas retronasally (mango, pink grapefruit, lime, passionfruit) but providing only a mild, resinous, softly spicy bitterness allowing for a juicy finish. Another typical New England IPA, hazy and yeasty with as much sweet and tropical hop aroma as possible without the typical long-lasting, tonic water-like bitterness of the average West Coast IPA. Not the single most remarkable example in this substyle I had so far, but certainly very pleasant and enjoyable in all respects.

Pours deep brown into a snifter. Mocha head with good retention recedes to mottle surface. Chocolate and coffee aromas. Thick with hot chocolate covered pit fruit upfront turning to chewy vanilla espresso in the lasting finish.

Pours hazy mahogany into a snifter. White head with good retention recedes leaving trailing spiders. Bubblegum and clove aromas. Medium bodied and sweet with bubblegum upfront turning to clove in the medium length finish.

Bottle from Bert’s Hazy deep golden color with a good sized frothy off white head that persists. Earthy light funk pepper and plenty of hubba bubba on the nose. Earthy sweet bread funky with lots of clove and bubble gum for the flavor. Pretty nice saison, could use a bit more pepper for my tastes, but great as is.

Two bottle pours into taster cup at NH Brewfest. Appearance: early bottle pour clear, light yellow; late bottle pour cloudy yellow (like a hefeweizen), small ring of white fizzy head. Aroma is strong pine, grapefruit. Taste is pine, citrus, grapefruit, tropical fruit. Palate is medium-to-full bodied with thin-to-average texture, soft-to-average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, very nice all around.