First sip is watery at the beginning and a hammer of hops at the end. This is clearly not a beer for sipping. The beginning tastes a bit grassy and may have a bit of lemon in it, but all of that goes away when the hops reveal their bitter head.
A big gulp amplifies the good in the beer. The watery tip-in is laced with the lemon, and then the middle gets very dry. It's almost heavy with malt, but the fringes are tingly with carbonation and bitterness. There's a hint of caramel just before the finish, and the finish piles on the bitter hops. It stays on the tongue after the beverage is gone and turns sour with a sting. The finish needs some serious work.
All told, it's a good effort, but it isn't very refined. The hops need to come on more moderately and the malt shouldn't be separated from it. The result is that the malt doesn't do its job of cutting the bitterness, it just holds back the flood until the dam bursts.
2.25/5