The beer is a much darker shade of bronze than I would've expected, and the off-white foam leaves lacing as it goes down. The patchy webwork of bubbles left on top are exactly what you would expect from an IPA. The aroma is not quite as smack you in the face as I had anticipated. It is a low-level of citrus fruits, being led by grapefruit, and a very difficult to discern malt.First sip is tart, and it's a little bitter. At first glance on the can, I read GFJ and didn't know what was going to stand for. Upon further inspection of the can, it's pretty clearly a grapefruit sitting underneath that logo, so I guess this stands for grapefruit juice. And grapefruit is definitely right there up front. I guess the malt is doing a decent enough job of holding back any bitterness, and the sip really makes me think that this should be gulped. It's very juicy in that respect.
Tip-in is moderate carbonation burn with grapefruit leading the charge and tangerine in its wake. The middle stabs at the roof of the mouth with carbonation excess and citric acid while something juicy is happening underneath, but it's really hard to taste it; the grapefruit is mixed with a bunch of other juices that we want to be tasted, but they're going to die there underneath that carbonation. The finish is too tart and too bitter before a grapefruit rind trail off.
Bottom Line: This just doesn't have any kind of balance.
1.0/5
