Lúpulo Fresco
El Sueñito

2024-09-29
16oz can served in a big snifter. If the can is dated, I don't see it. Bought it at a PCC a couple days ago.

Pours a hazy orange-yellow with a small head, light carbonation. Smell is herbal, cut greens.

Taste is medicinally herbal, moderate honeysuckle sweetness, moderate bready grains.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied, smooth, somewhat still. Overall, it's not bad.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a light to moderately hazy, medium golden amber with a two finger white head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of pale malt, citrus and dank hops, lemon, orange, mild mixed stone fruit, light dankness and a little green onion. Flavor is pale malt, citrus and mixed fruit hops, orange, mixed stone fruit, cucumber, light pine and a touch of grassiness. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. A fine fresh hop IPA with a flavorful hop bill; I really liked the flavor combination and progression, from citrus to mixed fruit and then pine developing. The hop flavor oddly tapered off into the finish, but did leave a nice light to moderate piney bitterness. I would have liked a little more alpha bitterness in the finish, but I was drawn back to repeated sips because the hop profile was so pleasant. A very nicely brewed fresh hop as the season seems to be winding down.