High Bines
Shred Beer Company

Can poured into a Mountain Rambler Brewery pint glass

A: Pours golden yellow with a frothy cream white head that settles to a firm layer and laces nicely.

S: Zesty citrus, resinous pine, light underlying mix of exotic, tropical, and stone fruit, floral and grassy notes, and slightly crackery biscuity malt.

T: Resinous pine, zesty citrus, grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, and lime, floral notes, a little underlying exotic, tropical and stone fruit, white grape, gooseberry, apricot, peach, passion fruit, blueberry, guava, pineapple, and mango, a bit grassy, faintly crackery biscuity malt, and a fairly dry finish.

M: Medium body, slightly prickly moderate carbonation, faintly oily.

O: Hits all the notes a proper Westy should. Plenty of bitterness, but also some nice depth. Just kept getting better and better as it opened up.

I actually had the Triple Dry Hopped version of this one first earlier this year so it's fun to see what it was built off of. I think the fruity side comes through a bit stronger there, but so does green resinous side. Definitely worth seeking out, especially if you like this one.

 

 

 

This beer to Raul is like the one and only time that I read the book The Big Sleep. Like, I know certain things are happening here, but I’ll be hornswoggled if I actually knew what was going on. And this beer is that: interesting stuff is going down, and like Sam Spade himself, boy, is it smooth. But the actual flavor… like, what? Sharper than Einstein on a nootropic, but also astringent-like along the way. Hell, I don’t know… I’ll finish it, but like said literary masterpiece, it’s going to leave me confused as hell.