8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Poured up on tap at Wilderness where the liquid is in a squat tulip glass that exhibits a clear copper body with thin gold edges and supporting an off white head of foam. The aroma is nice and full with grapefruit citrus hops, a bit of pine resin, some yummy onion dank hoppiness and then a slight maltiness in the background. The taste is crisp and snappy and rich, as it is uber fresh. I get firm, slightly sweetened by malts, mix of spicy dank shallots, grapefruit, orange peel and tangelo with a pleasing degree of hop bitterness. Behind the hops is a slight drying malt roastiness with slivers of sweet malts around the edges giving this plenty of backbone and just enough malt roastiness for the style. It leaves a pleasing lingering citrus note into the after taste. I wouldn’t mind drinking a lot more of this. Excellent Pale!
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Oct 2013
at 15:54
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
This pours up with a moderate degree of opacity where deep copper and thin gold hues are displayed as well as a light tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up notes of malt sweetened citrus and then thin wisps of spicy to dank earthy onion hoppiness and a touch of pine. The very first swig actually seemed on the sweet side. Additional sips refute that finding as I?m getting a pleasing rush of grapefruit, tangelo and mango like hop flavor that bleeds into a pleasing degree of citrus hop bitterness that gets an edge of resiny pine hop goodness to it. Behind those notes are modest levels of spicy dank hops, sweet malts and then a faint malt graininess (and when the palate was slightly fatigued that enjoyable note was gone). Yet another Wilderness beer I can see myself drinking and drinking and never stopping. Love it.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Oct 2013
at 18:55
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Growler pours with a clear copper body that has gold edges and supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma emits thick malt sweetened citrus as well as spicy hops, a touch of yummy dank onions and just a bit of malts in the background. The taste is big and rich and demands more sips. I get thick rich citrus like grapefruit and tangelo that has plenty of hop flavor to go along with the firm hop bitterness. Well executed with a tasty rich balance. Dang. I do not want to stop drinking this. I don’t
Tried
from Growler
on 07 Oct 2013
at 18:55