William
Marlowe Artisanal Ales

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. This smells and tastes like a typical hazy IPA, except this beer has a dry finish but then a bitterness builds. Surprising!

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a super hazy and murky looking yellow-orange-brown color with a one finger head of white foam. The head has a great level of retention, fading over time and leaving a decent level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is heavy of a papaya and pineapple smell mixed with some orange and a good strong showing of pine and grapefruit. There are also notes of biscuit and grain as well as some mustiness and hay.
Taste – The taste begins with a very malty flavor with lots of biscuit and bread along with notes of some sweeter tropical fruits of papaya, passionfruit, and some orange. There is also a good showing of pine and earth as well as some grapefruit from the start. These raw hop flavors get more intense while the sweet fades and the malt increases. Toward the end some light pepper and spice join in the taste along with notes of hay and must, leaving one with a thick and malty, decently dank, and fresh hopped taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel -The body is thick and chewy with a lower to moderate carbonation level. A bit on the thick side, but for the nice fresh and raw hop tastes the feel is pretty decent.
Overall – A bit too heavy for a 6 % abv brew, but OK none the less.