Green Man has a fairly overwhelmingly good record here. Their creepy face on the cans notwithstanding, they almost universally have good presentation and solid branding. This is branded for nerds, so I guess I'm the target audience, but it wasn't until I brought it home that I noticed that the design on the can might lean into dank pretty hard. Hey, there are good beers that have dankness to them, but it almost never works out as a primary focus. Maybe this won't focus on it.
The hay yellow beer produces a perfectly acceptable head that will leave a smidge of lacing as it reduces to a thin, complete cover over the beer. The aroma actually immediately turns me off of the beer. It is dank as all get-out, and the dank is mixing with flowers and... gah. This isn't appetizing. I think I wasted money on this beer.
First sip isn't as bad as the smell, but the dank is still too much. The flowers are also not as bad as the smell, and the beverage is unexpectedly sweet. Is it good? Urm... I don't know. I just had a sip, and I can't decide. Maybe it's because I was bracing for the horror of too much dank, and I wasn't prepared to actually taste it. Let me try another sip. Okay, it isn't as sweet the second time, and it oddly seems even more dank. No, it's not great so far.
Tip-in is mild carbonation burn with citrus fruits and a pall of dank hanging over everything. The middle grows with carbonation moving to the roof of the mouth and ... very little happening underneath it all; it's not flavorless, but it's not bursting with anything at all. The finish is dank and kinda icky.
Bottom Line: Not all nerds are stoners.
0.75/5