DIPA - v2
Cloudwater Brew Co in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.86
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10/10
Tried
on 10 Mar 2016
at 14:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle thanks, to Dirty D. It pours slightly hazy bright gold with a thick white head. The aroma is fresh, sweet, juicy, peach, yellow plum, passion fruit and tangerine. The taste is crisp, bitter, juicy, grassy, tangerine, earth, yellow plum, minerals and grapefruit with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Pretty well - rounded and easy boosting. Juicy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2016
at 14:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle split at the level 42 tasting, thanks to Daniel Sprey, 09/03/16. Very lightly hazed orange golden with a decent off white cap. Nose is juicy citric peel, pine resin, straw, melon, mango, toasted bread. Taste comprises bitter orange, pine drool, mango, cantaloupe melon, tangerine shreds, toasty grain, leafy hop strokes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi aggressive hop bitterness in a drying close. Solid DIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2016
at 14:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
24th February 2016
Lightly hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, fairly dry. Reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth light malts, a mild sweetness. Hops bring skunk, pine and hop spice. Aniseed alcohol. Touch of spicy orange and tropical fruits. Light finish brings more spicy pine. This a tasty DIPA which I enjoyed but I can’t believe anyone would think this was better than version 1. It lacks the refinement of the marvellous beer. 3.6
13th March 2016
Okay nearly 3 weeks on from the first bottle and the raves about this one are not dying down. Smooth malts, mildly sweet, thin cream. Good piney hops, mellow hop spice. Smooth skunk. Citric hop underneath, pithy. Light floralness at the end. Hop spice linger. Yeah it’s a very nice and it just goes to show you can drink a bottled IPA too early, this one has smoothed out a lot and lost it’s hard edge. Still not quite as good as V1 though!
Lightly hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, fairly dry. Reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth light malts, a mild sweetness. Hops bring skunk, pine and hop spice. Aniseed alcohol. Touch of spicy orange and tropical fruits. Light finish brings more spicy pine. This a tasty DIPA which I enjoyed but I can’t believe anyone would think this was better than version 1. It lacks the refinement of the marvellous beer. 3.6
13th March 2016
Okay nearly 3 weeks on from the first bottle and the raves about this one are not dying down. Smooth malts, mildly sweet, thin cream. Good piney hops, mellow hop spice. Smooth skunk. Citric hop underneath, pithy. Light floralness at the end. Hop spice linger. Yeah it’s a very nice and it just goes to show you can drink a bottled IPA too early, this one has smoothed out a lot and lost it’s hard edge. Still not quite as good as V1 though!
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2016
at 10:30
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Fra fat på Piccadilly Tap 15 Feb 16. Varmgul. Lett uklar. Lavt tett kritthvitt skum. Lett fruktig aroma. Mest plommer. Smaken balansert. Grapefrukt & plommer. Lett syrlig helhet. Blir vel søt etter hvert. Alkoholen?
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Mar 2016
at 05:00
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330ml bottle from the brewer. Pours hazy gold, good white head. Aroma is lemon and lime citrus. Taste is smooth and beautifully balanced tropical citrus flavours, hugging the tastebuds with a soothingly robust hoppiness. Sweet, juicy mango reveals itself on subsequent sips with a leafy lime flair. A wonderful, drinkable DIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Feb 2016
at 15:14
8/10
Tried
on 29 Feb 2016
at 11:45
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home in London - picked up at the Bottle Shop, Bermondsey. Pours clear gold with a moderate, frothy white head. Quite a dank and decadent aroma, with lots of ripe mango and papaya, some orange, pee, a little melon. Medium to heavy sweet flavor with sturdy pale malt sugars, lots of plump and gooey tropical fruits, some mango smoothy, more papaya, melon, bataloupe, orange and tangerine, mild alcohol, just a bit of piney bitterness. Full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Warming finish gooey, sticky and resinous, with tons more ripe fruits, buckets of papaya and pineapple, mango, booze, pale bread, pine, hints of grapefruit, tangerine, a little meringue. Another leviathan here from Cloudwater. The hop character in this is intense; it’s a remarkably juicy beer. The booze is definitely there, but there’s also ample sweetness that helps it all go down. It could be a little drier, though. As it stands, this beer is outstanding. With just a little more cohesion, it would be truly world-class.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2016
at 16:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Nose is lime, mango, lychee, pineapple, juicy fresh and very appealing. Taste is surprisingly malty for a DIPA, leading to a rounded and sweet, mango, honey, peach, flavour with lots of lychee. The second sip brings more pine resin and a light cream flavour. The finish is boozy and peppery. The finish while pleasent isn’t lasting and the beer seems a little fleeting compared to the very best DIPA A very nice, beer which wears it’s strength well. It’s a strange beer from Cloudwater, most of their range is unbalanced, with too much bitterness, and yet the DIPA where you would expect lots of bitterness, is very balanced and focuses on the fruit to the extent it’s almost an American Pale..
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2016
at 15:18
8/10
Good but not as good as the first batch. Nice dry-hopping. Oily. Resinous. A bit too sharp and hot compared to the previous batch.
Tried
at
The Stash Bar
on 25 Feb 2016
at 17:47