First sip is sweet and bitter up front with a dusty coat of pine bitter bringing up the rear. This is pretty clearly not a sipping beer. It has too much bitterness and not enough taste to balance it out, so the mouth winds up all cattywampus with a feeling that the mouth is tipping forward where the sweetness is barely helping things out.
Tip-in is bread malt sweetness with pine spines sticking out. The middle is citrus and floral more than anything. The bitterness is right along the edges of the mouth, but they aren't closing in as the draught is pulled. When the finish comes, the taste changes to a honey-swirled nutty pine with a layer of dust on top. Then, the trail off goes all wrong with harsh floral and pine bitterness that is uninvited and unnecessary.
Bottom Line: Um... no. Not today. Maybe the next try will be better.
1.0/5