Cloudwater Brew Co Birthday Balloon

Birthday Balloon

 

Cloudwater Brew Co in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Special Out of Production
Score
7.45
ABV: 8.5% IBU: - Ticks: 19
To mark Cloudwater's 3rd birthday. Features new season Citra, and recipe tweaks they've learned since last year. The hops were split 3g/L in the whirlpool, 3g/L in the FV at the start of fermentation, and a 26g/L dry hop via their new hop gun. They added dextrin malt and Golden Naked Oats for body and clean malt flavour and switched to New England yeast for maximum joose.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can. A bit older than desirable. Still, a big, juicy hop nose, orange, mango, pineapple. Wheaty biscuits too. Super cloudy, glowing, pastel orange with a high, fine head. Age comes out in the flavor. Orange juice, pineapple, very spicy, peppery, and rather bitter. Slightly stale finish. Body is a bit thinner than expected. Too old, but still pretty nice.

Tried from Can on 23 Apr 2018 at 09:18


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can as a gift. Many thanks! Hazy orange/yellow colour, white foam. Fruity nose of pineapple, mango, citrus. Sweet fruity with bitter aftertaste. Rather heavy. Not a bad one.

Tried from Can on 24 Mar 2018 at 19:04


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

17th March 2018
Can. Big thanks to Leighton for hauling. Hazy gold beer, bubbly pale cream colour head, good coverage. Slightly fluffy palate, mildly dry,.decent fine carbonation. Airy malts, mild creamy sweetness. Hops being a mild spicy bitterness. Lightly savoury mid. Some citric peel. Light dry spicy finish. Hmmm - was.expecting a better hop fruity hop profile. Spicy bitterish linger. It's fine, slightly disappointed given Cloudwater's background. Trace of tinned mango.Light finish. Savoury linger. Pretty good.

Tried from Can on 18 Mar 2018 at 04:32


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can thanks to LKS for the pick-up. It pours cloudy orange with a medium foamy white head. The aroma is rich and juicy, big mango vibes, nectarine, fruit smoothie, orange chewits, creamy, green, dank and some spice. The taste is dry, bitter, green, dank, weed, bit of spice, crazy creamy, orangey tropical fun times, solera ice lolly, mango, peach, passion fruit, chewiness, nectarine, touch of rawness and some alcohol warmth with a drying finish. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Punchy stuff, but I like it.

Tried from Can on 16 Mar 2018 at 18:52


8

Ananas, brzoskwinia, soczek, mile gladkie i soczkowate. Mowie

Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2018 at 17:35


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

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Can at home thanks to Leighton for sourcing this one. A hazed deep bright orange coloured pour with a fading loose off white head. Aroma is big nice dank hops, spicy mango, plastic, woody citrus and some alcohol. Palate is semi sweet, heavy resin, highish carbonation. Flavour is composed of rounded base malts, sticky dank hop, mango, woody, light chalk. Assertive slightly harsh bitterness. Little rough round the edges. Need to dial down the bitterness.

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Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2018 at 15:28


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Hazy golden beer, white head. Smell is grapefruit, citrus, grass, hop. Its actually a bit boozy if you sniff a good lungful. Taste is what you'd expect after that, but fortunately the alcohol taste is just on the right side of adding to the beer rather than detracting from it. Its not a guzzler, which is good given the strength, but it's nice.

Tried on 09 Mar 2018 at 16:12


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Tried on 08 Mar 2018 at 21:47


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

keg at salty... Haz amber... Thin white lacing... Hazy orange... Thin white lacing... Soft sweet floral peach nose.. Long juicy orange fruits

Tried on 07 Mar 2018 at 16:05


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Flagon filed at Hop Burns & Black. Murky orange colour with a medium off-white head, dissipating slowly. Aroma is very savoury, oniony, dank, stone fruits and tropical fruits. Taste is a little nicer, more of the stone fruits coming through, dank, far amount of savoury notes again, onion, tropical fruits, light sweet, low bitterness. Medium body, smooth, soft carbonation. It's good but nowhere near as nice as last year's, too much savoury flavours this time round.

Tried on 01 Mar 2018 at 23:08