Eternal Sunshine (Lemons)
Al's of Hampden / Pizza Boy Brewing

 

Pours lemon (zing) yellow, clear, with a nice stark white head. Looks great. Smell is lemon, lemon, and more lemon. It's like lemon pledge (in a good way); just clean and pure. Like it will wash away your considerable sins. Taste delivers that lemon payload, but there's a bracing bitterness from the hops. It's a little too two dimensional - LEMON ... BITTER - but solid. I'd like more nuance from the hops. Finishes crisp and lemony clean.

 

 

This was good in a small dose, but i enjoyed the regular Eternal Sunshine more. The bracing sourness is something that I tend to like, but the bitterness of the hops and lemons was very intense. The fruity flavor of the hops were overpowered, but this is still a tasty and well crafted AWA.

 

 

 

 

 

32oz crowler into tulip. Thank you StormKing47. Consumed directly after regular eternal sunshine.

A: Pours a clear chalky lemon yellow with a thick and frothy white head that slowly faded into a soft and wispy collar. Spotty lace was left down the glass. Looks much like the original.
S: More lemon than the original, as expected, but I still get the same powdery yeast notes and tropical fruit hops. The nose is again, very light and crisp, with hints of a clean tartness, fruity hops, and crackery pale malts/wheat.
T: Not a sour lemon bomb, but rather a delicately flavored light beer with a prominent sweet and tart lemon quality. Lemon is not overly bitter or acidic, but has a rather sweet fruit juice flavor. Flavors overall are very light and delicate, like a subtly flavored Berliner style Weiss. The added lemon definitely overshadows the original beer tropical and citrus hop profile. The finish is clean and crisp with a short-lived tartness, crackery grains, and minerally yeast combination in the aftertaste.
M: A bit dryer and lighter than the original. Medium-light body with an even crisper mouthfeel than before.
O: Less tropical and more lemony than the original (duh). I thought this was a bit drier than the first one. Not sure which one I prefer. They are both very delicate and lightly flavored beer with a gentle tartness to them. Thanks again Josh.