I had to look twice at this can to recognize that this was a Green Man beer. This is a significant departure from their can styles in the past, and I really had to struggle to find where they had their goofy looking plant man that they use as a mascot. Instead, there's this homage to the Robert Indiana pop sculpture, but they decided to tilt the Z in haze rather than the O in love. It's their call. If this is hazy, I'm cool with it.
I have had much hazier beer. Indeed, I might go so far as to call this nearly clear. It seems very strange that something so not hazy would be labeled as a hazy IPA. Maybe I'm wrong, it isn't entirely clear, and you can certainly call it somewhat hazy, but haziness is not the selling point for this beer. The head might be one of the selling points, though. It leaves only a few structures of lacing as it goes down, but it is full and robust until it eventually wears down to an uneven covering across the top of the beer. The aroma is also a selling point for the beer with its deep mango, nectarine, and tangerine vibes going on.First sip seemed pretty good right off the bat, but there's a weird kind of tart and dank mustiness that seems to hit right is the beer is finishing up. It's not necessarily bad, but I wasn't expecting it, and I am not sure that I liked it that first time. I wish I could find an appropriate way to describe it. I took a second sip, and it's honestly just as jarring as the first. I think the main issue may not be coming from what the latter half of the beverage taste like, but rather it stems from the stark contrast between the flavorful but predictable beginning and the crazy finish. We are definitely going to have to gulp this.
Tip-in is excessively mild carbonation under tangerines, nectarines, grapefruit, and starfruit. The middle plunges into the same flavors, but they get a little tart and flow through the mouth like a river before the finish. The finish isn't as jarring as it is in a sip; dryness is a sudden departure from the juicy center before the very slightly dank, musty mist coalesces for trail off.
Bottom Line: It's fairly solid, and it improves as it warms up.
2.5/5