CFC Buster Habanero IPA
Theoretically Brewing Company

Full disclosure - big fan of Stone’s Crime and Punishment beers, which are sweat inducing pepper ales. So if you do not like spice (and I think this is rather mild overall) stay away.... this may be a love it/hate it beer.
Pours a slightly hazy dull copper to amber with trace of orange tinged off white head. Smell is definitely vegetal with citrus; can pick out hints of spice/peppers on a malty background.
Taste starts slightly sweet and malty with weedy, orange, vegetal notes, but then as you push into the beer warmth builds with crescendo spicy burn to persitent heat - yet never going over the top. Very little bitterness - probably because of the heat dom8nation - into a warm, pleasant mucosal burn from lips to esophagus to finish. Gotta say I really liked this. Drank on its own but suspect would be great with tacos/Mexican!

341ml bottle - an IPA made with habanero extract, lime juice, and brown sugar. The CFC in the name refers to those ChloroFluoroCarbons of ozone depletion fame (or perhaps infamy).

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some tiered broken bike chain lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of musty lime flesh, muddled orange and red grapefruit citrus peel, bready and grainy caramel malt, a hint of estery yeastiness, some gentle green spice notes, and a further leafy, weedy, and floral hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, a kind of neutered-seeming green chili spiciness, overripe lemon/lime rind, further indistinct citrus essences, and more understated earthy, leafy, and herbal verdant hop bitters.

The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as both the lime and habanero don't seem prone to giving much quarter. It finishes off-dry, the multi-vectored fruitiness contending with a lingering respectful pepper heat.

Overall, this offering succeeds by delivering all of the promised flavours, and not leaning too far in any particular direction (especially the spicy one). Interesting, and actually quite easy to drink, once I stopped trying to parse all the nuances, which is typically par for the course. Good stuff.