Citra Slicker V.2
Bale Breaker Brewing Company in Yakima, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Cloudburst BrewingIPA - West Coast Autumn
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Score
7.15
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This hop harvest, the seasoned big-city brewers from Seattle’s Cloudburst Brewing made the trek over the Cascades to team up with the farm kids from Bale Breaker to brew Citra Slicker Wet Hop IPA, a fresh hop beer that was first brewed two harvests ago. While it took the Cloudburst team over two hours to get to Bale Breaker, the hundreds of pounds of wet Citra and Loral hops picked fresh from the fields that morning traveled just four minutes from farm to kettle. Heavily dry-hopped, while light in color and body, this beer is all about these fresh, farm-grown hops!
Malt: 2-Row, Munich, C-10, White Wheat
Hops: Mosaic®, Citra®, Loral™, Citra® wet hops
Yeast: BBBC House Strain
Malt: 2-Row, Munich, C-10, White Wheat
Hops: Mosaic®, Citra®, Loral™, Citra® wet hops
Yeast: BBBC House Strain
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
(sample, can) Clear golden. Medium white head. Citrusy, light sweet, medium bitter. Medium body. Bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2026
at 14:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Bale Breaker / Yonder Cider Ballard, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out intense dank hops, some allium, and pot. Flavour is dank, piney and dry, with a real nice hop expression and just enough malt to balance. Bold and dank, with a dry finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Oct 2022
at 05:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Light orange body with white head. Hoppy citrusy aroma. Taste is as hoppy as a bunny. Fruit finish.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2022
at 22:08
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Pours a clear (!) orange hue with a large white head. A light citrus nose. Toast, medium citrus, low bitterness, mild resin. Quite smooth. A bit of herbal notes.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Oct 2022
at 07:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Amber, slight haze. Thin head. Lots of malt, but a ton of hops, too. That sweetness is on the edge, but carries the big hop bitterness well. And with how oniony citra has been lately, to not have that here is impressive.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2021
at 07:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can from Tavour, 10/31/19. Fairly clear golden-orange color, thin off-white head, some mild, streaky lacework. Bright pine, citrus zest and herbal hops. Some spice. Resiny, grass. Tingly, clean feel. 7/4/8/4/15
Tried
from Can
on 31 Oct 2019
at 17:33
6/10
Tried
on 04 Nov 2017
at 21:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler thanks to Steve pours out a crisp clear gold topped with a white head. Nose is nice crisp tropical notes and some sweetness. Taste is more of the nice sweet tropical fruit hops and a well balanced end.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Nov 2017
at 16:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Crowler from Growler Guys. Clear, bright golden, soft foamy head. Full hoppy aroma and taste.. Clean and crisp. Pretty damn good.
Tried
from Crowler
on 04 Nov 2017
at 16:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft pour pint at Cloudburst. Try 2.0 of this beer. Had at Toronado a little while back and something seemed weird. Every beer deserves at least a second chance. Seems like Bale Breaker feels the same way. Besides, it’s a perfect day out for a beer like this. Fresh, grassy hop aroma. Creamy body, hop bitter covered by a unique sweetness. Not quite a fruit sweetness. Something I don’t even know about! Refreshing as an overall. Creamy, and exploding with hops. Two hop masters teaming up. This ultimately lead to my expectations being very high. Maybe too high. Overall, still a crusher the second time through.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Oct 2016
at 16:22