Days getting warmer and brighter mean most people want their beer to do that too. Well, the brighter part anyway. Some people can't do with a dark beer on the most wintery of days. Hard to understand, those other people. I'm not averse to an IPA every once in a while myself, and if it's from a brewery like Basqueland, even better. SSD is a West Coast IPA, so maybe not as soft and breakfast-wake-upy as a NEIPA might be, but both sides have their good points. Refreshment assured being one of them.
A remarkably fruity aroma leaps out, more peachy to me than citrusy or anything else. After a little time some of that spicy pine that you would expect from a beer of this style does push its way through. It's a lighter colored beer, pale gold, abundantly headed. The flavor is darker and mellower than I was expecting, although there's no surprise citrus. I get more melon than peach, although some sweeter, woodsier fruits are hiding in there as well, peeking out from time to time as you try to figure out how a pine-smelling beer can be so creamy. It has a fairly thick feel, if the peach was more in the forefront it would be a peaches-and-cream kind of beverage. As it is, it's perhaps a filtered melon drink. With melted ice cream.
Price: €7
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