Big Juice Smoothie "Ace of Hops"
Three Magnets Brewing

Look - 4.5 - color looks somewhat between orange juice and apple cider. nice opaque golden-yellow orange.
Nose - 4.5 - nice blend of juicy orange and bitter hops
Taste - 4.5 - nice creamy orange up front, bit of piney hops, very nice and smooth for 8.5%
Feel - 4.5 - fat and creamy. Pillowy and smoothie-like as the name suggests
Overall: 4.5

 

 

16 oz can, thanks bro- Pours lightly hazy copper orange with a large white had and good cobwebby lacework. Aroma is citrusy, piney, resin, a touch of caramel malt. The taste is citrusy and very dank, resinous, hops are well blended with the malts, sticky and lingers long after the swallow. Wasn't what i was expecting here, but i really like it.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a hazy, medium coppery amber with a one finger white head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of pale and lightly caramel malt, citrus and tropical fruit hops, pineapple, orange, guava, passion fruit; hazy IPA profile. Flavor is pale malt with a little caramel, orange, lemon, pineapple, papaya. Finishes with citrus rind and lightly piney hops. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess, nice mouth feel. A nice hybrid style NW/hazy IPA. The look actually is just slightly hazy, but the aroma is almost spot-on NE tropical. The flavor spans the the two coasts, starting with a mixture of pineapple driven tropical fruit and then developing some pine bow into a finish with good bitterness and an almost resinous piney and citrus hops finish. It's hazies like this that keep me coming back to the style, despite my lack of interest in the low bitterness fruit forward ones. This is nice and leaves a pleasant hop memory.