This can is bedazzled with a weird pixelated background and a skeleton with big sunglasses, what look like Nintendo Power Gloves, and big headphones that don't appear to have a cord or a way to get through the hoodie he is wearing. Incidentally, he's either wearing a dinner jacket or a lab coat. I remark on all of this because this is apparently what New Belgium thinks the future is going to be? We're all going to be dead hipsters with hoodies who apparently like hops? I'm not even sure the skeleton can taste the hops. It's not like it has a tongue. It doesn't even have a nose. It can't even smell the beer. I'm confused.
First sip is sharp with pine bitterness, citrus, and I don't know what else. Honestly, it's like someone tried to make a wine out of pine. The mustiness from an old pine tree comes right on through, and it may be that I am mistaking it for bitterness in the taste. Honestly, the mustiness holds on a lot longer than any kind of bitterness does. A very strange beer, and it's not necessarily one that I think should probably be sipped.
Tip-in is acidic burn with very light carbonation tingle over lemon, orange, and mango with the mustiness kept just barely at bay. The middle is a sudden uptick of carbonation, and the pine manages to somehow become smooth over top of the existing fruits and a cracker malt. The finish is a deluge of mustiness that had been held back so far and could be held back no longer before a tinge of bitterness strikes quickly and goes away to leave a relatively crisp and vaguely dry finish.
Bottom Line: Seems like the future won't be that bad, despite all of the hipster skeletons stealing our Nintendo Power Gloves.
3.25/5
