Eternal Summer Slacking
Vice Beer

another great beer from these guys, this time in the extra pale style, strata heavy but with others in support, beautiful, highly refined, dry and drinkable, low bitterness but still snappy, almost lager quickness about it, impressive specimen, ive been loving all their recent hoppy ones. blonde and lively with the carbonation, over an inch of lasting white head on it, champagne level excitement here, pretty good clarity, just yellow colored, not one of the malty pales. the aroma is herbal like lime leaf and green tea, quite fresh even now in the late fall, as this was presumably a spring or summer release, coconut from the strata, lemony citrus but not over the top there, melon rind too, light sage to me, and then just a simple pale malt base with a little crackery pils thing but dry and out of the way, which is also the case with the flavor. in the taste i get honeydew and key lime, spruce and white wine grapes, grapefruit soda, and some leafy green bitterness in perfect proportion on the swallow, absolutely dry as a bone and clean and crisp to swallow, lager-like again there, fast carbonation makes it sing, and it also warms up well, although i barely let it, this is a drinker. love the modern hopping, the fact it still has some bitterness, the real low key grain profile, and the overall mouthfeel along with the low alcohol, ideal summer beer yeah, but id drink this anytime. a very quintessential take on extra pale ale, for those still unsure what that is supposed to mean in the glass...