Wicked Juicy
Cellarmaker Brewing Co.

 

16oz can from Tavour. Hazy yellow pour, fizzy white head. Citrusy aroma, grapefruit and pineapple. Taste is zesty, zippy, grapefruit, pineapple, lemon. Juicy and zesty AF.

 

 

A great part of our 2024 4th of July celebration. This was the representative hazy out of 10 beers in various styles chosen for an ad-hoc tasting party.

 

 

Can poured into a Mountain Rambler Brewery pint glass

A: Pours hazy golden amber with a frothy off white head that settles to a light layer and laces nicely.

S: Tropical and stone fruit, citrus, resinous pine, a touch grassy, biscuity malt, and caramel sweetness.

T: Opens with a zip of resinous pine, quickly followed by citrus, tropical and stone fruit, tangerine, pineapple, passion fruit, apricot, peach, lemon lime, grapefruit, and a hint of mango, faintly grassy, biscuity malt, and light caramel sweetness.

M: Medium body, moderately lively carbonation.

O: Juicy NE haze with some West Coast bitterness. Really nice use of that hop combo.

 

Ugly beige pour from the summertime when Cellarmaker would ship (or respond) to Nevada. Consumed at Big Bend on the Humboldt. No clarity. Khaki color. 1/3" white head. Thankfully, the remaining aspects of the beer were significantly better.

The aroma is nice, and well, fitting of the juicy moniker. Ample waves of citrus and pineapple. Easy peezy Galaxy and Citra. No surprises in that regard.

The taste is also juicy, mouth feel bouyed by the obvious flaked wheat and oats, giving it a juicy interior while limiting Simcoe's bittering units. Thankfully they've dialed in the right amount of flakiness to keep the beer from becoming too thin, trubby, watery and every other way a beer can have unintended consequences of trying to tame an ipa's bitterness. Nothing about the "English" yeast comes off as perceptible. The tropical notes become varied as its not just pineapple, starts to take on some guava/papaya like notes. All in all, I liked this ugly beer, but not fighting anyone to get $5 cans when Sierra Nevada exists.

 

Wicked Juicy pours a light and opaque, pear juice yellow with a short lived white head and no lacing. The smell is juicy and sweet with mango and papaya and loads of tropical fruit! A slight hint of pine resin. The taste is crisp and light over the palette, juicy up front with tropical fruit that fades to sweet melon with just a slight hint of hops.