Burgeon Beer Co. Thuja

“A soft fruity note with hints of strawberry slowly transforms into a lemon-peel aspect. A clean and bright, minerally bitterness greets the tongue tempered by a slight fruity sweetness (black cherry and tangerine). The finish is balanced, dry, and quick. A beer you keep wanting to come back to and experience.”

__Aroma:__ “Lemon, orange, tangerine, touch of biscuit, and light vanilla with some pine dankness that hits up front. As it warms, the citrus notes really pop and come through as a dominating factor. Low light malt background.” __Flavor:__ “Intense citrus character with plenty of lingering bitterness. This is the first beer tonight that I would say pushes the ‘big’ end of the style. The malt is slightly bready and medium sweet, and the juicy hops flavor is huge; they play off each other well. Somewhat of a pine character is there in the back that coats the back of the throat.” __Overall:__ “This beer is huge! Big flavor and aroma all the way though. It showcases a great hops profile with a subdued but balanced malt bill. It finishes a touch sweet, but I think that is what they were going for. Yum!”

Aroma: “Piney and dank hops aroma, some bread-crust malt, grape-skin must, banana esters, and as it warms: orange pith, lemon, woody, and a huge spruce-tip berry-like character on retronasal.” Flavor: “Earthy and dank hops flavors. Fairly piney. Noticeable caramel malt. Some dried-fruit esters (raisin, fig). A slight mineral character. Some noticeable booziness and alcoholic warmth. Finishes on the sweeter side and distinctly bitter.” Overall: “A big, sweet, malty, dank, and piney IPA that seems to straddle the line between IPA and American barleywine.”