Opened cold and poured hard from a 473ml can into whatever was clean. Hazy straw, the head thick enough to sit proud of the rim for a full minute.
Mosaic / Azacca over a pale / oat base, finishing at 4.2% with 30 IBU. The restraint in that grain bill is the reason the rest of it works.
The aroma writes a cheque the palate very nearly cashes. What arrives is drier and quieter than the nose promises, and while the finish is clean, a point of the score disappears into the gap between the two.
The whole point of a beer at 4.2% is the second and third glass, and this survives both. There is no cloying edge, no fatigue in the finish, and the hop character stays legible right through. That is harder to achieve than a big beer, and it gets a fraction of the credit.
The haze is stable rather than sloppy, and it has not been used to hide anything. There is no yeast bite and no chalky residue in the finish, which puts it ahead of most of the shelf.
This is a perfectly competent beer with nothing much to say for itself, and there is no shame in that. At $4.40 / 473ml it is a reasonable trade. Whether you would choose it over the two better things beside it on the shelf is a different question.
Bought at Grocery (in stock at the time of writing). Fresh or not at all. At four months this is water with an opinion.
Fine. It is fine. There are worse things on that shelf and several better.
