Pizza Port / MadeWest Hazy Lines Imperial IPA

Beer Name: Hazy Lines
Brewery: MadeWest Brewing (Ventura, CA) in collaboration with Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, CA)
ABV: 9.0%
How sold: 16 oz tallboy can; on draft
Where bought: Craft Shack (San Diego, CA)  ****bought online
Price: $3.99 for 16 oz. tallboy can

Date Purchased: May 17, 2018
Date Received: May 30, 2018
Date Drank: August 6, 2018
When brewed? Limited-time beer. Released early May 2018.

What's on the Can/Website: "MadeWest and Pizza Port meet again, turning their epic Queen of the Coast collaboration beer into a hazy double IPA packed with a tropical juicy hop character, rounded out with a touch of local orange blossom honey."

Hops: Mosaic, Simcoe, Cascade, Ekuanot.

Where distributed: Pizza Port and MadeWest distributed this beer in California.

REVIEW:

Appearance (5%): Poured slightly hazy golden into a pint glass. Unfiltered, some sediment suspended in the beer and at the bottom of the glass. White head, trace lacing. 4.25/5

Smell (25%): Tropical citrus and complementing sweetness (probably from the honey). 4.5/5

Taste (40%): Soft tropical citrus from start to finish. Orange comes through while the sweetness of the honey complements. Octane kept in check. Refreshing. 4.5/5

Mouthfeel (10%): Medium-bodied, some carbonation. Some juiciness and some dry tongue. 4.25/5

Overall (20%): An excellent to outstanding IPA. Hazy Lines did remind me a bit of Bell's Hopslam, one of their more popular seasonal IPAs. Good price  for this one, too. 4.5/5

Final Weighted Rating: 4.463/5