Future Echoes
Single Hill Brewing

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a half finger white head that dissipates to patches with light lacing. Aroma of pale malt, citrus and fruit hops, orange, mixed tropical fruit, particularly mango, a touch of caramel. Flavor is citrus, piney and fruit hops, grapefruit, orange, vague mixed tropical fruit and pine. Flavor tapers off into the finish, with rather assertive pine resin and citrus rind lingering. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. This most recent version of Future Echoes (future version?) has a slightly lower ABV at 6.5, and is translucent, not hazy as the earlier version was described. It is clearly meant to be a traditional West Coast IPA. The hop bill leans to citrus and unidentifiable tropical fruit character, but with a burst of pine and resin in the finish. The bitterness is assertive, but to my taste. A somewhat low complexity hop profile that still keeps ones interest.

16oz can from a 4-pk my brother picked up at Mid Columbia Wine & Spirits, in Kennewick, WA, for Thanksgiving at our Parental Units' abode. He bought this, while I purchased a 4-pk of Sticky Hands. The date was on the 4-pk holder, and I can't remember it's age now, but it was pretty fresh in late November.

Poured into a 16oz glass mug, this was a hazy, honey-amber color. Good-sized, creamy looking, off-white head that left lots of lace.

Aroma is more reminiscent of a restrained WCIPA than a hazy. Citrusy, fruity, and piney hop aroma. I dug it, but someone looking for a NE hazy might be less enamored.

Similar to the aroma, this is a hazy IPA mainly in it's looks. The Simcoe, 17701 & Bravo hops give it a somewhat old-school WCIPA flavor, albeit restrained. It's not packing that old, C-hops grapefruity & piney "thwack, but it'll remind you those once ruled the IPA world.

Medium bodied, with a slightly oily mouthfeel.

A nice beer. Makes me think of Bodhizafa, but it's more assertively hoppy. Wish I had more. Thanks for leaving this can, Greg!