Give Your Hops Away
Southern Pines Brewing Company

 

Steady pour yields a finger of bleached white foam, cratered like the surface of the moon, retention is just below average, the lacing is broad at first but can’t stick. Cloudy is putting it mildly, another one of those which looks like a glass of apricot puree, completely opaque with no visible bubbles. The nose strikes you first with a brush of fresh marijuana before pouring pink grapefruit and tangerine citrus into your nostrils, modicum of pine sap, slightly jumbled up apricot, peach to pineapple scents, lacking in clarity, overall its large scale gives it power but not that much finesse. Full-bodied, layers itself thickly on the palate in a semi-sticky manner. Cleaner here with minimal dankness, more floral and loaded with tangelo, pink grapefruit and some lime citrus, huge component. Biscuit and scone but nothing toasty. Fully ripened mango, papaya, nectarine and peach fruit. The carbonation is weak and combined with the high degree of sweetness it would be hard to call it “refreshing.” However, the cheerful relentlessness of the fruit and citrus is hard to resist unless you really go for lean, grassy IPAs.

CANNED ON: 03/26/18

Murky dull peach color with a tight, wispy white head. I swear this can has a greener tint to it than the others - it's been a week or so since I had the last one. Green hoppy smell...orange, lemon, dried pineapple chunks, and dough. Sweet creamy fruity hop flavor with a sticky green finish. Orange juice, pineapple, mango - tropical fruit salad. Fluffy and nicely dry. A bit too close to fruit punch for my personal tastes, but it's refreshing.

 

Pours into a mug a menacing murky kind of tea infused lemonade color with a thick clingy full one finger slight off white head atop.Big orange and mango notes jump out at ya in the nose,citrus to the hilt.Citrusy and sugary sweet thru the mid point with a dryer crisp biscuit element in the finish.Almost like hop candy wich is addicting,insanely drinkable.