Kinda Wet
Cloudburst Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
7.14
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Canned on 10/1/24
Wet Hop IPA
Yeah, so, another harvest, another curveball. We always try to get some early picked Amarillo from Virgil Gamache Farms, and on this particular day they wrapped up picking about and hour before we could make it to the farm…so, we just grabbed a shovel and headed to the kiln, where we scooped up a couple hundred pounds off the top layer and called it a day. The moisture content was still pretty high, but it did add another unknown variable in regards to our process - Would we pick up more bitterness? Would the Amarillo throw some more interesting/different flavors? Would it still come across as chewy/leafy/cholorphylic?
Wet Hop IPA
Yeah, so, another harvest, another curveball. We always try to get some early picked Amarillo from Virgil Gamache Farms, and on this particular day they wrapped up picking about and hour before we could make it to the farm…so, we just grabbed a shovel and headed to the kiln, where we scooped up a couple hundred pounds off the top layer and called it a day. The moisture content was still pretty high, but it did add another unknown variable in regards to our process - Would we pick up more bitterness? Would the Amarillo throw some more interesting/different flavors? Would it still come across as chewy/leafy/cholorphylic?
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
16 oz can poured. Thanks, T! A little late to finally getting to the Cloudburst wet hops for the year, but not too late. Canned 10/1/24. Wonderfully unfiltered, brightgolden orange pour. Juicy with a good amount of lasting foam head. Juicy and bitter orange fruit, citrus, and grassy notes. Semi gritty grain late paired with resinous hop linger. Aroma leans melon. Hop profile seems layered, as it was all orange fruit up front, but more of a pine afterthought. Definitely some unique elements to this wet hop. None ever seem to be the same. Really tasty one here.
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on 17 Oct 2024
at 04:17