Smuttynose Brewing: Bouncy House IPA

Smuttynose Finestkind IPA was one of the first IPAs I ever grew to love. The first sniff of it on draft at Redbones in Somerville was a thing of beauty. Dank and weedlike, it was a bitter beast and I loved it. This was very early in the craft beer revolution for me, I was just 21 and beyond Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada, I didn't know much about beer. But this beer was excellent, and readily available at the bar I ended up at almost every night whether I liked it or not.
Recently Smuttynose pulled up their roots and moved down Route 1A to Hampton from Portsmouth, NH. Along with moving they made changes to their year round beers for the first time in, removing their Belgian Pale, Star Island Single, and replaced it with a session IPA, Bouncy House. First off, I just hate this label. There's something about the colors and unleveled people floating that just make me hate looking at it. But labels don't make good or bad beer, so that's not terribly important at the moment.
What matters is the beer, and this is a lovely beer. Session IPAs are everywhere now, but most of them lack one important thing for me. Bitterness, and Smutty has never been shy about inserting some bitterness into a beer. Bouncy House is no different, with a nice blast of pine and grass with some lemony citrus cut in the back over a cracker like malt profile. But it has a bite, and it really does an excellent job of balancing the bright and vibrant hops with the bitter acids in the finish. Now if they could just tone down the label we'd be all set here.