3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20500 ml bottle. Pours a clear bright golden color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is a combination of citrus, grassy and floral hops with a mild toasted pale malt base. The flavor has quite a bit of citrus and grassy hops with toasted pale malt and crackers as a base. This is certainly one of the standout pale ales that you can try.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 20/20
Growler. Easily one of the best beers I've ever had. The depth of flavor was absolutely amazing. I think that the only thing holding this back was low carbonation, and that may have just been due to the growler being in a box for a week from CA to PA.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tap at Toronado. Pours a dark gold with a thin white head. Really fresh pine hop aroma, crisp but not overdone. Taste is well balanced malt with pine and citrus hop taste. Excellent.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampled at DLD 2013. It poured a clear light amber color with a white head. The aroma was hoppy, citrus and grapefruit. It was medium on the palate with average carbonation. The taste was sweet, malty, bready, a nice dose of pine hops, with a light and bitter hop finish. Good stuff.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at Toronado SD. Clear amber pour. Aroma is well...all simcoe. I love simcoe. I also love cat piss, so that’s ok. Melon, pineapple, and peach. Really sticky beer, love it. Tast of peach, apricot, cantaloupe. So awesome.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
This was from a growler at the shared bottle tasting at the Hampton Inn the night before Dark Lord Day in Munster, IN. Orange in color. White head. Medium body. Nose of citrus hops. Flavor is fruity with some bitterness in finish. Tasty.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampled at the Hampton. Clear with a white head. Noce florl hs. Malts are light. A nice pale.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap at Tustin Brewing. Grassy, catty hops coming off a deep Orange body with a wispy white head. Lots more of those hops in the flavor with grapefruit juice and rind, along with a dry thistlely quality. Body is fairly thin with just enough sweetness (white peaches and oranges) to balance the hop bite. Finishes dry with a lastly bitterness and some floral in the aftertaste. Nice hoppy IPA, very refreshing if a bit one dimensional.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours clear amber with a nice tense off white head. Aroma is malty citric fresh fruity. Flavor is as aroma, good hoppy bite lots of fruits and good bitter grapefruit finish
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Growler thanks to raiders707. Pours a crystal clear golden color with large pillowy white head that dissipated quickly. Aroma similar to Pliny. Orange, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, and some maltiness. Taste is sweet tropical fruit, with some grapefruit bitterness, and ends with some grassy notes.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: APR 17, 2013 On tap at Russian River. Orange pour with a white head. Aroma is awesome. Resinous, piney, all simcoe. You can showcase the hops all you want, but if the base beer isn’t good you’re sunk. I think Russian river’s strong point is they make really good base beer. This one was fantastic.
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