It's Good Weather For Black Leather

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

IPA - West Coast Regular

Score

7.30

ABV: 6.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 14

This delightfully punchy westie uses a trio of Citra, Columbus & Idaho 7. The aroma is like walking into a classic sweet shop with an array of hard-boiled sweets tickling your nostrils. The taste, no different. A sherbert fizz hits your tongue and is rounded off with a dank dose of blood orange to finish

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7.6

LazyPyro (9998) reviewed It's Good Weather For Black Leather from Cloudwater Brew Co 10 months ago

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

440ml can. Clear golden, white head. Aroma of orange and grapefruit, dank savoury stuff. Taste is citrusy, orange, grapefruit, pine, dank herbs, not at all savoury like the aroma suggested, bitterness is... acceptable, but still less than ideal for a WC IPA. Medium bodied.
As far as Bright IPAs go this was a good one, but I still hope this "Bright IPA" style dies off soon and we get back to proper westies with actual bitterness.

Tried from Can on 20 Apr 2025 at 16:41

7.4

madmitch76 (40452) reviewed It's Good Weather For Black Leather from Cloudwater Brew Co 10 months ago

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

9th April 2025
Keg at Cloudwater. Near clear gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Thinnish but smooth pale malts, a thin and mild creamy sweetness. Cooling pine. A fair degree of bitterness, lesser but, obvious skunk. Back end brings thin but bright citrus. Light and semi dry finish. Decent.

Tried from Draft on 20 Apr 2025 at 13:41

WingmanWillis (38284) reviewed It's Good Weather For Black Leather from Cloudwater Brew Co 10 months ago

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

Pours clear gold with a thin white laced head. Loads of caramel, piney hop, blood orange. Sherbet notes on the finish. Really good westie

Tried from Draft at 73 Enid Street (Cloudwater London Taproom) on 09 Apr 2025 at 16:57

7.5

Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed It's Good Weather For Black Leather from Cloudwater Brew Co 10 months ago

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

Keg at 73 Enid Street, 09/04/2025.
Sounds like it should be a CDA!
Clear golden orange topped with an off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is grass, melon, dank chimes, mandarin, hop spice.
Taste comprises bitter orange, grapefruit, pine needle, citric tinged straw, melon.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctured with juicy come grassy hop bitterness with a dankened edge.
Tidy stuff.

Tried on 09 Apr 2025 at 10:05