Smog Days - Sideways Rain
Smog City Brewing Co.

Sideways Rain, Upside down Lava, Inverted Tornado… call this thing whatever, because it’s a banger. Hell, it’s not even summer anymore but this one goes boom like the 4th of July. Juicy hops caress me with a smoothness that I haven’t seen since John Gilbert walked into the room.

 

Canned 9/24/21. Consumed on 10/10/21 after being bought as a single can off a room temp shelf about 5 days earlier. Ina stemmed tulip glass it pours a clear (no haze, other than maybe a slight chill haze that is temporary) dark straw yellow with relatively voluminous but loose white to off-white head that recedes in a few minutes to nothing more than a thin ring with a barely-there island of small bubbles in the middle of the glass. Leaves essentially no lacing.
Smell and flavor are similar and really hard to describe other than to say the Ekuanot hops come through and it is a "different" flavor profile from the ubiquitous tropical fruit/citrus offerings in the IPA world. Maybe some citrus peel coming through in the flavor. I found this on their website: "This blend delivers massive tropical, stone fruit, and citrus aromas. We've also got some Ahtanum & Ekuanot hops in there for an added flavor punch. Sideways Rain is a bright and drinkable IPA that brings refreshing flavors of juicy fruit gum, gooseberry, and touches of geranium all atop a cracker malt profile."
OK, I got little or no citrus (maybe some peel) and no tropical fruit, but that odd flavor I picked up could be that geranium that they reference. I gotta admit this is the first time that geranium was in a beer profile for me.
Medium to sort of light-ish body with fine, mild carbonation in the mouth. The bitterness is definitely there and it lingers but it is not intense....just enough to let you know it is there.