Aspiring to be an ultra-bitter hop head delight, deviously deceptive strong ale (with stylishly tame 7.7% ABV) ‘straddles the line between a malty amber and a tongue-bruising IPA.’ Relying just as much on ripe stone-fruited sweetness, toasted caramel malting and peated whiskey licks as the India Pale Ale-defined piney citrus Cascade hop bittering, exaggerated medium-full body needs to eliminate some aspirin-like acidity at the juicy fruit-spiced finish so that the orange-bruised grapefruit zest enveloping its red cherry, peach and nectarine tang (as well as ancillary honeyed cantaloupe sweetness) gains brighter distinction.

One step beyond Lucid Dyno’s 5.2% ABV (weighing in at 6.5%) and featuring a darker amber hue and sharper citric fruiting, off-dry India Pale Ale caresses dainty floral bouquet with lemon-perfumed navel orange, yellow grapefruit, pineapple, mango and tangerine tang. Toasted caramel malting plus sugary pecan-praline-vanilla conflux sweeten light spruce tones. A beautifully designed and crisply clean-watered medium body striking a balance between sessionable midrange and hop-headed delirium.

‘Classic’ midrange India Pale Ale in a can offers oats-dried pale malting and toasted caramel sweetness to stylish piney citrus hop dryness. Lemony orange tartness and subsidiary mango-papaya-melon conflux stay subtle. Serve to pale ale fans as sharper alternative.