Independents Day
Cloudwater Brew Co in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
IPA - New England / Hazy Special Out of Production|
Score
7.41
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This is a celebration of the caring, committed and creative folks working in the UK's independent beer retail sector. We invited a number of them to the brewery in January for our Indie Retailer Summit, to look at the future of the industry and find new solutions to common challenges. We also brewed this collaboration, which features Idaho 7 and NZ Cascade hops selected by the folks in attendance.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Cloudwater tap room on the Bermondsey Beer Mile. Tasted 7th march 2020. A really solid NEIPA. Nothing wrong with it.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 May 2020
at 16:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Beer Central, Sheffield. Oops. Left this in the freezer overnight. Must be good seams on CW cans. Fully hazy, milky orange gold. Fine white head stays the course. Nose has orange sorbet. Milky grain. Pineapple cubes. Hint of pine resin. Taste has a juicy fruit sweetness, with some chalk mineral bitterness. Medium body has held up well to 12 hours frozen. Fine carbonation. Moderate bitterness to finish. Decent, albeit a tad sweet and oaty.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Apr 2020
at 18:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home sourced from the CW shop. Pours murky orange gold with a decent white cap. Aroma is resin, mango and pineapple. Taste is super juicy pineapple, mango, plenty of piney, resinous hop, orange on the finish, plenty of bitterness. Good stuff
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2020
at 15:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
15th March 2020
Can. Hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry and has a fine crispness. Light malts, slightly thin but still bringing a decent creamy sweetness. Taiheke dominates the hops, crisp orange with touches of tangerine and citric peel. Some floral orange. The Idaho 7 brings a little tropical fruits but they cower under the Taiheke. Crisp finish. Nice beer, but more Idaho 7 would have made this special.
Can. Hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry and has a fine crispness. Light malts, slightly thin but still bringing a decent creamy sweetness. Taiheke dominates the hops, crisp orange with touches of tangerine and citric peel. Some floral orange. The Idaho 7 brings a little tropical fruits but they cower under the Taiheke. Crisp finish. Nice beer, but more Idaho 7 would have made this special.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2020
at 13:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home picked up from Caps and Taps. A clouded yellow gold coloured pour with a thin white head. Aroma is super juicy, melon, fresh green hop, grape with some grassy, pithy notes, green mango. Flavour is composed of soft rounded wheat, slick oats, big pithy green hop, little dank plastic notes. Some alcohol bite in the finish. Punchy. Palate is rounded, slick, frothy airy carbonation. Aggressive pithy grapefruit bitterness. Punchy
Tried
from Can
on 22 Mar 2020
at 18:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at the Cottage in Bourton On The Water, 13/03/20. Murky orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is orange pith, grapefruit, weed, pine resin, dextrose, mango. Taste comprises grapefruit zest, weed, dank hops, pine resin, ripe melon, papaya. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close spiked with juicy come danko hop bitterness. Solid IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Mar 2020
at 11:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at home in London - picked up at the London taproom. Pours cloudy orange-gold with a frothy, white head. Has some nice juicy citrus fruit character, a bit of pectin, light chalky minerality, low bitterness, rind. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Pithy citrus in the finish, notes of oranges, mango, peach, tangerine. Good one overall.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Mar 2020
at 21:08
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 12 Mar 2020
at 20:48
7.5/10
Orange, like, grapefruit, dank resiny, oaty body. Very good
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2020
at 21:11