The opaque beer has a bronze cast, and that color is also reflected in the off-white nature of the scant head. What head there is boils down to a thin, even across the top of the beer with strength in numbers around the sides of the glass. The beer tries to give me a little lacing, and a little should be good enough. The beer certainly smells pretty good; there's a bit of mustiness around some oranges and tangerines with the bread and cracker malt. I'm seriously looking forward to this beer.First sip is quite juicy. It has the orange, tangerine, grapefruit, and a little bit of pine mixed in with some grainy bread. There's so much juice, though, that the whole thing is particularly quenching in a way that most IPAs cannot approach. As a result, I could definitely see sipping this all night long, but that's not my way.
Tip-in is mild carbonation tingle under a bread pita with orange and grapefruit on top. The middle sashays in with a thick, bombastic wedge of orange and tangerine butting up against the grapefruit, pine, and muted plum with that pita of bread still laying underneath. The finish turns a bit tart before a gentle mustiness leads into the trail off.
Bottom Line: A flavorful beer that also manages to be highly drinkable.
3.75/5
