What Our Editors Thought
“Understated but fresh and sunny aroma, with subtle citrus, white tea, and stone fruit, emerging more as it warms. The flavor comes and goes quickly, delivering a quick, savory-citrus punch—like the lime-and-salt of a michelada—resolving into a bittersweet, reasonably dry finish. The total effect is fun and moreish.”
What Our Panel Thought
“Nice, golden look with good head retention. The aroma could be even stronger, but it punches hard as is with fresh-to-death orange trees, coriander, sticky weed, lychee, mango, papaya, and damp moss. The flavor delivers on West Coast expectations: almost a whisper of caramel to the malt, which anchors sticky dankness and resin, pine needles on a forest floor, clementine, Valencia orange, grapefruit and pith, orange and lemon Sour Patch Kids, but without any plasticky candy fakeness. Overall, the complexity, the malt support, and the lingering bitterness are simply outstanding.”
What the Brewers Say
“Wet-hop West Coast double IPA brewed with wet Strata and wet Citra.”