Sample at MBCC2019 First Session, Copenhagen. Colour is very cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, some distant hints of vanilla, some tropical fruits, hops and malts.

Draught @ MBCC '19 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2019, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark.[ As Cloudwater Tasty Like Nelson ].Murky medium to light yellow colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, grapefruit, tropical fruit, fruity hops, light pine. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, tropical fruit, grapefruit, hoppy, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20190510] 8-3-8-3-16

A remnant of this year's MBCC, canned in late April so two and a half months old; typical hazy Cloudwater IPA celebrating the famed New Zealand Nelson Sauvin hop variety. Thin, irregular, sparsely lacing, open, egg-white head quickly reduced to a ring of bubbles on a cloudy, even milky peach coloured beer, ochre-ish with deep 'dirty' orangey hue. Luscious nose reveals the typical 'crushed ripe gooseberry' effect associated with Nelson Sauvin, next to impressions of freshly grated ginger, overripe mango, papaja, soggy biscuit cake, stale lime juice, gin, green peppercorns, clay, withering dill, sweet cicely, baby's fruit purée, diesel, rotting shallot. Utterly fruity onset, tropical and lush, stale lime juice, mango purée, ripe peaches, rambutan, sweet with a light sourish edge; carbonation is stingy but in a 'refined' way, full and very fluffy, bit creamy body. Soggy biscuity and cookie-like malt softness gets completely soaked in luscious Nelson Sauvin fruitiness, with again that sweet ripe gooseberry effect as well as the peaches, mango and rambutan returning, along with a lovely, edgy zestiness reminiscent of lime juice - albeit in a subtle way. Bread-crumb-like and very clearly hoppy 'powderiness' coats the back of the mouth, leaving a peppery note behind that some would describe as a 'hop burn' - but gently so. Still this effect does get highlighted in the very end, when a slightly wry, gin-like alcohol effect appears, and takes over the finish. Tad too boozy perhaps, not the single most elegant Cloudwater IPA I had so far, but still very much Cloudwater in all respects, with dankness, tropical fruitiness and zestiness galore, all soaked up in a very full and fluffy 'biscuitiness'. Each sip invites to have another one, and isn't that what we are looking for in a good beer?

Can @Mad for Beer (Rome). Dorata, torbida, schiuma bianco-sporca media. Al naso note di frutta tropicale, mango, passionfruit, ananas, erbaceo. In bocca ha un bel gioco di malto all'attacco, con chiusura amara media, succosa, fruttata. Corpo medio, carbonazione media. Non all'altezza di altre Cloudwater, comunque si beve.