Deathly Pale Ale
Popping the cap suprises me with a gunshot and blue smoke drift. Pouring it creates one giant glass of foam. Intense carbonation. As it settles, I begin to discern a hazy ripe peach with reddish accents, forming a very soapy white head with amazing clumpy meringue retention and lacing owing to the mega-carbonation. Bits of what appear to be hop leaves are floating around lazily. Aroma?...that Reaper Ale contaminated yeast strain...sour green apples, kiwi fruit, pear juice concentrate, dry husky malts...no discernable hop aroma for this "Deathly Pale Ale" (my ass). Taste begins with a very sharp acidic sourness (besting many lambics in intensity), followed immediately by caustic metal cleaner, over-brewed green tea astringency and bitterness, and hop bitterness with no hop flavor or aroma. Finish is very tart and dry. As tasty as the ovaries of a Puffer fish. I wish I could send every previous reviewer of this brew a couple ounces of the crap that I'm drinking right now. These guys have HUGE contamination issues...that or they're trying to poison me. My guts are churning....Aaaagh, my face is getting flushed...hot flashes....gah. 3 strikes you're out, Bayhawk Ales. You now formally suck. Down the toilet you go....you're not even deserving of a sink.