Cloudbusting #4
Grimm Artisanal Ales
- From:
- Grimm Artisanal Ales
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.14 | pDev: 8.21%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 13
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 27, 2017
- Added:
- May 20, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 8
SCORE
91
Outstanding
91
Outstanding
Cloudbusting is our series of soft, delicate imperial IPA’s brewed with New Zealand hops. We rotate different NZ hops into each batch. Cloudbusting #4 turned out beautifully; we taste honeydew melon, clementines, honeysuckle, and that telltale “purple tropical” note that we often get from the New Zealand terroir. The beer has a soft mouthfeel, gorgeous yeast-free haze, some hop floaties, and some of the loveliest lacing and foam you’ve seen on a beer in your life. Cloudbusting #4 is brewed with Wai-iti, Waimea, and Motueka.
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Reviewed by Beers-es from Virginia
4.25/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap, pours a light straw gold with light haze. Solid lacing. Smell has an almost honey-like sweetness. I totally get the "purple tropical thing." Taste follows with a sweet and tart balance that works well. Good bitterness. Really good.
Jun 10, 2017
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
3.98/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
On tap at Aurora Brew Works in East Aurora, NY.
This one pours an about halfway clear orange color, with a small head, and a ton of lacing.
This smells pretty catty, with some dank melon, pine, and grassiness.
This is a bit too cat pissy for me. The other Cloudbusting entries were better, but this is still pretty nice anyway. It's quite earthy, with an interesting bitterness, along with guava and melon.
This is light bodied and crisp, but doesn't finish all that cleanly.
This isn't Grimm's best IPA, but I wouldn't kick it out of bed.
Jun 05, 2017This one pours an about halfway clear orange color, with a small head, and a ton of lacing.
This smells pretty catty, with some dank melon, pine, and grassiness.
This is a bit too cat pissy for me. The other Cloudbusting entries were better, but this is still pretty nice anyway. It's quite earthy, with an interesting bitterness, along with guava and melon.
This is light bodied and crisp, but doesn't finish all that cleanly.
This isn't Grimm's best IPA, but I wouldn't kick it out of bed.
Reviewed by FriedSlug from North Carolina
4.5/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Gross, snowy looking, orange looking beer that is exactly how I want a beer to look. Tons of sweetness on the nose with orange citrus and pine. The taste is wonderfully sweet and citrusy with a pine/pith bitter finish. Fantastic beer.
Jun 05, 2017
Reviewed by OrangeMen from New York
4.57/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.57/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
3 weeks from canning date
Appearance- Pours a bright deeper golden yellow color. Hazy,w/ suspended particles. Half finger thick, creamy, eggshell colored head. Lots of head lacing holds to glass.
Aroma- Ripe, fresh melon. Bright berry notes. Tropical fruit juice, pineapple. Touch of citrus zest and earthy floral notes.
Taste- Citrus juice, fresh squeezed oranges, sweet and zesty mixture. Soft and ripe melon, fresh honeydew. Sweet pineapple juice, juicy berries. Subtle sweet malts. Zesty and earthy bitterness carries into the finish, hints of flowers, herbs, and citrus.
Feel- Medium bodied, soft, delicate, creamy. Pleasant drying finish. Fluffy carbonation.
Overall- Its got all the lovely juicy and fruity notes up front, and finishes with a lingering citrusy zestiness. Favorite part might be the sweet melon notes shining throughout, so fresh. The beer is real lively and enjoyable.
Jun 04, 2017Appearance- Pours a bright deeper golden yellow color. Hazy,w/ suspended particles. Half finger thick, creamy, eggshell colored head. Lots of head lacing holds to glass.
Aroma- Ripe, fresh melon. Bright berry notes. Tropical fruit juice, pineapple. Touch of citrus zest and earthy floral notes.
Taste- Citrus juice, fresh squeezed oranges, sweet and zesty mixture. Soft and ripe melon, fresh honeydew. Sweet pineapple juice, juicy berries. Subtle sweet malts. Zesty and earthy bitterness carries into the finish, hints of flowers, herbs, and citrus.
Feel- Medium bodied, soft, delicate, creamy. Pleasant drying finish. Fluffy carbonation.
Overall- Its got all the lovely juicy and fruity notes up front, and finishes with a lingering citrusy zestiness. Favorite part might be the sweet melon notes shining throughout, so fresh. The beer is real lively and enjoyable.
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