Starbucks is serving this with a citrus espresso foam on top, and it was... not so tasty. The base beer is dry and has a super-bitter pith finish. The foam didn't mesh with it at all. I may also be biased because I don't find beers with that profile to be "refreshing," either, but I think saying it didn't mesh is a pretty objective statement.

Pretty standard IPA. But still enjoyable.

An IPA that lacks almost all initial bitterness, smells like it should, but retains some of the the lingering bitterness. A bit of fruit to the middle, like pear.