Always All Ways
Bent Hill Brewery

 

 

Moderate pour yields a nearly one inch white head over a very hazy golden body with some sticky lacing. Nose of tropical fruit, sweet citrus, and a bit of pine dankness. Taste of almost all dank hop bitterness with not much else, although the fruit is there but pushed way, way back into near oblivion. After some warming it mellows a bit with the fruit coming into play a bit more. Good feel and overall, not too bad as it looks juicy, smells juicy, but doesn't taste juicy. Cheers!

 

Poured into a tulip, the appearance was a thick opaque orange paper color with a finger's worth of white foamy head that slid off fairly slow. Some light lace, here and there.
The aroma had a nice orange pulpy to zesty to spicy-like character, maybe some white pepper, some hop spice then equals out with some grassiness.
The flavor was spicy through the hops, contoured with the zesty orange sort of nature. Grassy hop tones come back to provide a semi-level aftertaste of the orange zest with a semi-sticky sort of juiciness.
The mouthfeel had some stickiness to it, not necessarily cloying, but a light stickiness. Then there's the hop burn and actually as the beer warmed, the hop burn seemed to have subsided. Normal low carbonation for the New England style. ABV felt fairly close to what was projected. Finish had some of the hop burn yet with a sly creamy sort of endowment there.
Overall, if anything, the aroma and the flavor is what makes this beer. However, the hop burn starts unbearable but somehow seemed to have leveled out as the beer warmed. Perhaps I would give this another chance, maybe.