Mellow oak-toasted barrel aging smooths out below softly creamed caramel malting and tropical-fruited Cascade hop briskness. Mild alcohol astringency emerges alongside lemony yellow grapefruit, navel orange, mandarin orange and tangerine tang while herbaceous basil, fern and rosemary seasoning adds complexity. But its frail white bread spine falters, allowing the ripe fruity aspects to slip thru the resinous pine-wooded cracks.