Cloud Jumper
Sloop Brewing

 

 

Appearance - Pours a cloudy peach colour with three fingers of frothy white head.

Smell - Bold tropical and citrus fruit (pineapple, mango, passionfruit, orange, grapefruit, guava), notes of wheat malts, hints of spice and floral hops.

Taste - Bold and bitter tropical and citrus fruits as noted above, along with alcohol and hints of the wheat malts. Mostly fruit forward.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Sticky on the finish.

Overall - A tasty and fruity NEIPA, but for some reason the taste of alcohol is distracting me on this one (even though it is only 6%).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Day 2020 Quarantined beer review #1. From a can 11/11/20

The color is on the white side of frosty, hazy golden NE style look. A bit thinner and not as chunky and pulpy as some. Fine white foam head settles in quicker too.

The aromatics are extremely bold, with sweet citrus notes, sticky lupulin sap, green hop cones, husky golden grains, oats and wheat within the malt.

No boil style hop explosion, Southern Hemi and PNW hops have this thing in major Xfactor complexity land.

Texture is classic smooth and pillowy for the NE style. Lemon Zest kick is detected immediately on the first sip, spicy too. Mellow feelz, easy with a big blanket of Flaked Oats, often my favorite adjunct in IPA's. Orange peel, mellow melon, dry stone fruit all within this hop complexity that is very balanced by the white wheat style malt and heavy oats addition.

Cloud Jumper, I mean it really is the perfect name for this beer.

 

 

 

 

Sometimes I think Sloop is just going overboard with their outputs and mash up of hop varieties and oats and wheat. Oh my. This one is better than some of the others with serious haze until other faux NEIPAs. It has plenty of hoppy and fruit nose notes of orange and other citrus. The flavor profile is the same but coupled with a bread(y) mouth due to the oats in the mash. The mouthfeel is quite creamy. Good output Sloop.