Appearance: Glory Days is a really good looking beer that poured clear and golden into one of my Spiegalau IPA glasses. The head disappeared quickly and never really returned though it left some light lacing. I suspect the packaging is an amalgam of the two brands that collaborated on this beer but it comes off looking like one of Cabin’s weaker can designs.
Aroma: Smell is overripe tropical fruit. It's very nice.
Taste: And it tastes like it smells. Tropical fruit. Maybe a hint of grain and just a barely perceptible touch of grass or other vegetal flavour. This is a tasty beer.
Mouthfeel: It's an ISA. So it features a lighter malt bill. Carbonation is spot on but there's a thinness to the beer that's expected from an India Session Ale, which is a lighter form of IPA. Session in this case refers to a drinking session—meaning that, unlike a stronger IPA, you can drink more than one or two at a time because its less filling and contains less alcohol.
Overall: This is a faithful throwback to the final days of the original IPA craze—when IPAs were still clear but brewers had started to eschew crystal malt and swap out the old citrus and pine flavoured hops for newer, fruitier varieties. IPAs from this time were lighter in colour, less bitter and had entirely new hop profiles. ISAs or Session IPAs were also ascendant during this time. So overall, I think this beer hits the mark but I’m just not a big fan of the lighter body and thinner mouthfeel that is unavoidable when you’re targeting an ABV under 5%.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5