New Belgium Hop The Pond

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

22 oz bottle. Pours clear golden orange with a medium creamy white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet biscuity malts with grassy, piney, lightly fruity, hops.

The flavor is sweet bready malts with funky fruit and a big bitter finish. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with creamy carbonation.

Overall, why does NBB use so much biscuit malt? I just don't care for it, or the funky odd fruit in this. There's good bitterness, but I don't care for the hop flavor.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

Pours a clear mid orange body with a foamy tanish head that settles to a small cap on top of the beer. Decent lace left behind. Smell is of tropical fruits, citrus and a touch of dank pine. Taste is much the same its very 'bright' lemony, papaya, mango, juicy orange, grassy, piney and tbit of dank resin. Malts we dont need no stinking malts!! malts are present and bring some balance but this beer is all about the different hops. A lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp and medium bodied mouthfeel. Overall, this is a very good beer with the varied hops flowing in and out each shining on its merits.I am making a special stop by the beer shop in morning to get another one or two, maybe three