Arizona Wilderness Refuge

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Rated one of the best batches Dec. 2014. Many many follow on batches weren't nearly this good. This pours up with a moderate degree of opacity where deep copper and thin gold hues are displayed as well as a light tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up notes of malt sweetened citrus and then thin wisps of spicy to dank earthy onion hoppiness and a touch of pine. The very first swig actually seemed on the sweet side. Additional sips refute that finding as I?m getting a pleasing rush of grapefruit, tangelo and mango like hop flavor that bleeds into a pleasing degree of citrus hop bitterness that gets an edge of resiny pine hop goodness to it. Behind those notes are modest levels of spicy dank hops, sweet malts and then a faint malt graininess (and when the palate was slightly fatigued that enjoyable note was gone). Yet another Wilderness beer I can see myself drinking and drinking and never stopping. Love it.