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A- Can poured into my pint glass with a very pale straw yellow body donning a slightly cloudy appearance. A cap shoots up to about an inch high with a very fluffy consistency and pretty good retention. Large sheets of lacing decorate the glass.

S- A hoppy tinge to the aroma with mostly citrus ala tangerine, lemon and lime notes leading the way. Also a bit floral and herbal with pale barley, cracker and bready hints in the backdrop.

T- As above the citrus hops are the main thing to be found in this beer with a bit of grapefruit coming to life with the tangerine zest, lemon-lime and orange notes. Woodsy, floral, pepper, herbal minty and a bit of earthy hints also come from the hops which reign over a backbone of cracker, cereal and slight lager yeast influence.

MF- Light bodied with a substantial puffy and creamy texture from a high end level of carbonation. Ends with a medium but somewhat sharp herbal, citrus bitterness.

Hop forward but not a hop bomb by any means. Pleasant citrus hops give way to floral, herbal and earthy hints which reside over a minimal, pale grainy and slight lager influenced base beer.

12 oz can, 3/1/17 stamped on the bottom

Pours light/straw and medium clouded, near white froth, leaves a lot of nice looking fine scattered lacing

Lemony/lime hoppy nose

Light, bright and flavorful...Lite citric notes.....pleasingly easy drinking...crackers/goat cheese amd another glass of this...yum

Worth a try

Poured from a 12 ounce can into a Willi Becher glass.
3.25/4/3.75/4/4.25
Pale yellow and effervescent, with no meanginful head, but good lacing.
Smells hoppy and pleasantly grainy with a light, correctly sulfuric tinge.
Clean, crisp, and discernibly hopped. The finish is sharp, lagery, and metallic, but not in a way that indicates a flaw. A bit of a melon sweetness in the mainbody, and while I might want a touch more malt, the minerality is a pleasant substitute.
Drinkable, moreish, and somehow wholesome feeling.
It's a wonderful union between a pale ale and a bright lager. In other words, it's precisely what it purports to be. Well brewed!

Brief impression from a can:

Hop profile is zesty and tropical, leaning equally on citrusy hop flavour (lemon primarily) and tropical fruit hop flavour (honeydew melon). Malt backbone is on the lighter side; I get pilsner malt and that's about it.

The hops drown out everything else, but it's a shallow beer overall so there isn't much flavour in general hop-emphatic though it may be for a pale lager. I do like its hop oil flavour and texture, and it's smooth, wet, light, and refreshing, which is nice. There just isn't a lot going on here, but it's pleasant and approachable enough to make it above average.

Finishes too bitter; the pilsner malts can't fight the hops off for very long.

Forgettable imbalanced fare from Threes. I'd much sooner nab their vastly superior hoppy pilsner (Vliet) over this.

C+ (3.08) / ABOVE AVERAGE

The beer hits of honeydew candy for days, hints of citrus, a light bready malt character as the beer glides off of the palate. The beer is beautifully sessionable with a forward burst of fruity hop character, while restraining itself from being "juicy." The crisp and dry lager character on the finish makes this a soft everyday hoppy beer, one of the areas where Threes continues to shine.