White Birch Hop Session Ale

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

Pours a nice clear amber with a fine-bubbled pale tan head. Strongly hoppy aroma has fruity and subtle malty tones. Woody hops dominate the flavor, but bitterness is minimal, and fruity and malty notes make themselves known. Smooth texture has a nice ragged, tingly, woody and hoppy finish. Hop to this session.

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

Nose of vanilla, cookie dough, and a balance of citrus and pine from the hops. Brewed in small batches and unfiltered (this bottle was brewed a month ago) it presents a slightly foggy honey gold body with a nice white head that is frothy with excellent retention and decent lace. This sucker has a wonderful mouth on it, slippery with wonderful carbonation its medium bodied. Flavor...what can I say, PERFECTION, and I have had a lot of APA's. Hop-heads (and I am one) might complain but there is a ton of hoppy goodness in here but it is perfectly balanced. Very solid malt backbone and an absolutely clean dry finish..the magic here is that it presents as sweet and yet not sweet. The perception is of a sweet IPA but its only for an instant and then gone..magical indeed. Hop notes, like the nose, are balanced (and I suppose thats where the "Anglo" in the name comes in) between resiny and citrusy, hitting slightly sweet and citrusy and the start and finishing with an absolutely clean bitterness leaving the mouth entirely clean. I've got 15 minutes to get to the store and clean them out, this stuff is AMAZING!