Majorvices, if this was a commercial batch, I'd be curious to know how well that is received by your customers. GMO-anything is generally a third rail in the brewing industry.
The beer is doing well in the tap room. I've had a couple of 8 oz pours since it was released. My biggest take away is huge aroma development. These were spot hops, I don't have some fancy contract like all the really great breweries out there have. SO it's similar to hombrewing -- I take what I can get. Extremely "juicy" and tropical. Supposedly this yeast boosts thiols in the malt as well as the hops. I can't attest to that but I can say that it has is very strong in the aromatic department.
If there is a complaint it is that it sort of falls flat in the finish. Granted, that may be a recipe thing.
I should reiterate: I am not a fan of hazy IPAs, but I do appreciate their aroma. My takeaway is that this is an aroma bomb that that drinks easily at 6.5%. Nearly all the hops went in at WP. About 10 IBUs went into the boil.I used chit malt over oats or oat malt and I wonder if that was actually part fo the issue with the flat finish.
Regardless -- definitely something to play around with. I brewed a stout with it (around 1.065OG) that has a huge charge of Amarillo at flame out and dry hopped during end of fermentation with Amarillo ad dry hopped with Amarillo and Mosaic.Another beer style I ammnot typically fojndof (black iPa) but was trying to just get a very fruity and "tropical" tasting stout and it definitely did that. Aroma is like chocolate and orange. It is still in fermenter.