First sip is more malty and smooth, but there is definite hop bite on the back-end. It's an interesting character of the beer to have that bready caramel malt up front and the twang of hoppy bitterness at the end. It's like the profile of a race car - smooth in the front with spiky spoilers and diffusers in back. A sip is good, but a swig is better.
Tip-in is slight caramel malt and heavy carbonation burn. The hops' floral nature kind of rides on the wave toward the back of the throat. The middle is a lot of anger, with the hops and the carbonation scraping the mouth as the malt kind of smoothly flows by with bread and yeast flavors in tow. The finish is a bit abrassive with the hops sending some citrus and flowers at the tongue in the hopes of being a flavor rather than a sensation, but the burn is more memorable than the flavor.
Bottom Line: It's okay, but it's not refined. The flavors fight each other rather than compliment each other.
2.25/5