Tunnel Buddies
Lupulin Brewing

Appearance: Pours a mostly clear (80% clarity) light to pale yellow color with a strong white head. SRM of 6. (3.75)

Aroma: Strong aromas of tropical, orange citrus, tropical, melon, and berries. Smooth pale malt. (3.75)

Flavor: Strong favors of lemon citrus, citrus, pine, tropical, orange, and melon notes. Pale bread malt with a slightly juicy and bitter piney finish. (4.00)

Feel: Medium body, average carbonation, finishes, juicy, bitter. (3.75)

Compared to Drowned Lands River Birch 6/2024: Pours hazier, milder head. Milder aromas. More dank citrus and pine. Less smooth pale malt and yeast.

Overall: Lupulin Tunnel Buddies, listed as a West-Coast Pils meaning it's dry-hopped. Collab with Kros Strain in Nebraska. It has citrus and pine flavors. Lemony but also slightly dank and bitter. Leans a bit IPL-like. It's good. (Rating: 3.90)

16 oz cans canned 3/15/24 into a nonic and also a pokal.
L: SRM 3.5 Pours slightly straw light yellow with steady carbo bubbles, a thin white head that recedes to a thin skin, no lacing in the nonic glass, light lacing with light banding in the pokal glass.
S: Fruity, herbal, floral, a hint of white grape, bready malts, has a subtle dank note.
T: Fruity, a hop bite, fruit sweetness (citrus, stone fruit), pale malts, lemon zest, a hint of grapefruit, a slight black pepper hop note, yeast. Bitterness is zesty. Has a zesty yeasty aftertaste.
F: Lightly crisp light bodied mouthfeel with a fairly short and drying finish.
O: Super easy to drink and refreshing. Surprisingly light-bodied. I personally enjoy its pale malt taste against the bready & fruity tastes. Borders on being an IPL but it's crispness and bready halo make it a Pils. The WC aspects here IMHO are citrus zest and a fairly dry finish. It is outstanding in its style.