Straight off the bat, this has a wonderfully beautifully zesty aroma. The sort of scent that makes you sit up and pay attention, wondering what joys are to be found in the glass. Unfortunately, the beer itself lets this aroma down. It has a warm loving malt and a tart citrus edge, the combination of which is slightly unbalanced. While it is still very drinkable, it has all the hallmarks of a beer that needs a few years of tweeking to perfect the recipe, though, as I commented yesterday, this is hardly surprising in a relatively new genre. At 4.9% it is just within the range of a heavy session beer, but it is neither warm and enveloping enough from its malt nor crisp and refreshing enough from the citrussy hops to be desirable in that context. It is a pint of interest, rather than a consistently enjoyable drink. When sampling we found that this beer was better chilled, and that we enjoyed it less and less as it grew warmer. This meant that our initial evaluation of an interesting seven was dropped to a final score of 6/10 by the bottom of the glass.
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