Hazy Jumper
Country Boy Brewing

Canned on 7/30/25. Pours a cloudy yellow gold with a solid white head that settles into a sticky skin. Aroma maintains the stone fruit-centric aroma of Cliff Jumper, but adds tropical fruit and lime to the mix. Flavor melds stone fruit and tropical fruits initially, but works towards lime at the finish, which has a light aspirin bitterness. Mouthfeel is soft, oily and perhaps a touch astringent. A long overdue update to Cliff Jumper, and well done at that.

Que the Creed song now because Country Boy is taking their cliffs higher. Transforming their Cliff Jumper into something in the clouds takes the work of Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe hops.

Those lofty results come with a foggy and tarnish straw pour, equipped with a creamy white froth and a bountiful scent of citrus, tropical fruit, stone fruit and berry. Laced with a firm cereal base of grain and malt sweetness, a crisp but honeysuckle softness soothes the early palate. Rising hop flavors of lime, white grapefruit and orange peel soon lead into passionfruit, mango and papaya before trailing into a smooth and herbal bitterness of black tea, sassafras, verbena and hemp to close.

Medium bodied and residing on the crisper and drier side of haze, the malty-dry ale finishes on the bitter side of bitter-sweet for an elevated sense of refreshment for sure.