[1607-20080816] 12floz bottle. Sweet maple yeast and wet grains aroma. Slightly hazy, light brown orange body with a big long-lasting foamy off-white head. Hoppy sweet malty maple flavour. Medium body. Fair.
(@ Cole’s IPA Festival; Buffalo, NY)

2008-08-16. Hazy orange body with a small off white head. Aroma of muddled hops, grainy caramel malt. Flavour has similar grainy character, light astringency, sweet citrus waves goodbye into the finish after it had barely arrived. (6+) Average palate. Meh. Bottle, Coles IPA Festival, Buffalo

Bottle @ Coles IPA tasting. Worst of the day. Bottle could be aged. Bought @ Sams in Chicago. Pours a murky, cloudy. Wierd aroma of plastic & very little malts & hops. Taste has some sweetness, tea. Overall poor

Bottle from Discount Liquor, Milwaukee. Really fluffy white head with lots of lacing on top of a clear, amber colored body. Really strange hop aroma, a little grassy and floral, but just strange in general, sweet malt breaks through the hop mess as well. Nice amount of bitterness, but once again the hop flavor is really strange grassy but wierd, it also doesn’t work with the sweet malt body and a little lemon, bleh. Medium, syrupy body. Wierd, just plain, wierd.

This is, how you say, a colossal disappointment. This ranks right up there with Summit IPA in terms of not goodness. I can’t figure out how this is an IPA. Super malty and flowery, minimal bitterness. Reasonably clear copperish color. Some roast character in the back end, but the bitterness is lacking. Meh.