First sip is mango-orange-apple juice on top of biscuits with a touch of sweet honey glaze. It's a solid taste - not as fantastic as I found the DIPA or even some other IPAs I can recall. It's still pretty good, though, even as a sip. Not all beers can be sipped, and this one is just fine at it. Many very good beers need to be swigged, though, and this is going to get that treatment.
Tip-in is significant carbonation burn with tropical fruits and citrus fruits. The biscuit malt is helping things out a little, but it seems like it's just peeking around the corner to let you know it's there. The middle is great. It spreads out into a fruit smoothie with malt and yeast giving it a bread and sweet tinge that is, as I said before, great. The finish is a twinge of bitterness, a hit of carbonation, and a yeast hint of slight funk.
Bottom Line: At the sip, I was prepared for a letdown. But this didn't let me down.
4.0/5