Broken Clouds
Fieldwork Brewing Co.
- From:
- Fieldwork Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 92
- Avg:
- 4.19 | pDev: 6.44%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 9
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 10, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 29, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
SCORE
92
Outstanding
92
Outstanding
Broken Clouds is a Double IPA that has waged war on the sweet and malty Double IPA's of the world. First appearance you'll see that it is every bit as pale as a traditional Lager, with a thin white cap of head sticking to the glass like the soon to be hop resins sticking to your palate. Approaching without caution could be disastrous, take a sniff and notice how the hop aroma grabs you by the sinuses and pulls you face first into the glass. Don't take a sip, take a gulp and revel in its unadulterated juicy and fruity nature. As dry and crisp as a Double IPA has ever been, the notes of pineapple, honeydew melon, grapefruit, and starfruit rain down on the palate leaving it drenched in hop perfection. With abnormally low bitterness and malt character, unparalleled dryness and hop aroma; Broken Clouds is a Double IPA upon itself residing on the corner of Crushable Court and Aroma Avenue.
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Rated by Chcshammonde from California
4.27/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Very good, similar to bloomsday but sharper hops.
Sep 07, 2017
Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
16oz can, served in a snifter glass. Pours a hazy, cloudy golden and yellow body, one finger thick white head, lots of retention, bits of lacing. Smell is sweet caramel, grapefruit, bits of resin, some onion, papaya and more tropical fruit. Smells fairly substantial. Flavour is a nice balanced double IPA with light biscuit, fair caramel, grapefruit juice, tropical fruit, bits of pine resin. The onion lingers a bit on the finish as well. This isn't so much a NE IPA as it is more of something that would come out of the midwest; not sure what this is supposed to be marketed as, but it's not quite NE and not quite West Coast. More of a balanced, on the slight malty side. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, good carbonation, a bit dry, resin and tropical fruits balanced with the sweet caramel on the finish.
Jul 13, 2017
Reviewed by mkh012 from Colorado
4.4/5 rDev +5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.4/5 rDev +5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
16 oz. can, canned 11 days ago.
Hazy orange in a stemless wine glass. Lasting lacing.
I get orange, doughy malts, and kiwi. Super smooth, medium minus bitterness, noticeably malty. This reminds me of Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn (random comparison, I know).
The mouthfeel is medium. Easy-drinking.
Overall, good stuff. 9/10
Jun 30, 2017Hazy orange in a stemless wine glass. Lasting lacing.
I get orange, doughy malts, and kiwi. Super smooth, medium minus bitterness, noticeably malty. This reminds me of Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn (random comparison, I know).
The mouthfeel is medium. Easy-drinking.
Overall, good stuff. 9/10
Reviewed by Alieniloquium from Florida
3.9/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.9/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
16 oz. can. Hazy orange. Smells of tangerine, a little tropical fruit, and some garlic. Tastes of bright orange and tangerine. Grapefruit as it dries out. Back end is a little pithy. Medium body. Very drinkable and tasty.
Jun 29, 2017
Reviewed by fmccormi from California
4.5/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Straight pour from a 16oz can to an oversized wineglass (Jester King stemware). This has no canning or freshness info, but it was purchased a day or two after canning eight days ago. I’d wager it’s about ten days old, so pretty dang fresh.
Appearance (4.5): This pours out about three fingers of generous, ecru-colored foam, capping a very hazy, glowing orange-gold body with dull orange-tan undertones. The head takes it sweet ass time dying down, leaving an extremely tight web of clumpy, slightly leggy foam all around the glass and a broad, rocky puck of foam on the surface.
Smell (4.5): Fruit aromas here are dominated by mango and papaya, along with a touch of pine, resin, and a moderate amount of dank, slightly diesel herb. As it opens up, the aroma goes toward passionfruit musk, kumquat, and a touch of acerola. Malt? It’s probably in there. Floury baking soda biscuit, and a late surge of bright, acidic pineapple. Big fan of this nose—classic NE (D)IPA.
Taste (4.5): Oh man, this is juicy! Just pungent, sweet nectar dried up a bit by some citrus-pithy bitterness on the back end. Nectarine, clementine flesh, musky papaya, a touch of kumquat and champagne mango, buoyed by lime zest, acidic pineapple flesh, somewhat resinous dank character, and a quiet but firm dose of red grapefruit pith right in the finish. The malt is smooth and doughy, giving the impression of southern, white flour dumplings and a touch of sourdough. It mostly serves to add some depth and body to the sweet, yeast-boosted hop additions. On that note, the yeast does contribute some fruity esters which mostly mingle alongside the malt underneath that load of hops. There’s some suggestion of the booze hiding inside this beer, mostly expressing itself by blurring lines with the more dank, resinous side of the hops. It’s incredibly juicy, smooth, and satisfying.
Mouthfeel (4.5): Needless to say, the body is rich and juicy, erring on the side of full-feeling without coming off as heavy or syrupy. It’s definitely slick, though, lightened up only by the mix of grapefruit pith and slightly boozey, resinous hops on the back end. The carbonation is smooth, lush, evenly distributed, and pinpoint-fine, offering a nice little tingle as it foams up on the wash out. Despite its heft and slickness, this one begs for the next sip—it’s hard to put down, y’all.
Overall (4.5): In my opinion, this is a proper Northeast (D)IPA, folks. It’s juicy, hazy, aromatic, loaded with first fruity and second dank hops, bitter enough but that’s about it, slick, and still crushable. And not showing its actual size. I don’t know what else there is to say about this beer, other than it’s a legit NE (D)IPA.
Jun 25, 2017Appearance (4.5): This pours out about three fingers of generous, ecru-colored foam, capping a very hazy, glowing orange-gold body with dull orange-tan undertones. The head takes it sweet ass time dying down, leaving an extremely tight web of clumpy, slightly leggy foam all around the glass and a broad, rocky puck of foam on the surface.
Smell (4.5): Fruit aromas here are dominated by mango and papaya, along with a touch of pine, resin, and a moderate amount of dank, slightly diesel herb. As it opens up, the aroma goes toward passionfruit musk, kumquat, and a touch of acerola. Malt? It’s probably in there. Floury baking soda biscuit, and a late surge of bright, acidic pineapple. Big fan of this nose—classic NE (D)IPA.
Taste (4.5): Oh man, this is juicy! Just pungent, sweet nectar dried up a bit by some citrus-pithy bitterness on the back end. Nectarine, clementine flesh, musky papaya, a touch of kumquat and champagne mango, buoyed by lime zest, acidic pineapple flesh, somewhat resinous dank character, and a quiet but firm dose of red grapefruit pith right in the finish. The malt is smooth and doughy, giving the impression of southern, white flour dumplings and a touch of sourdough. It mostly serves to add some depth and body to the sweet, yeast-boosted hop additions. On that note, the yeast does contribute some fruity esters which mostly mingle alongside the malt underneath that load of hops. There’s some suggestion of the booze hiding inside this beer, mostly expressing itself by blurring lines with the more dank, resinous side of the hops. It’s incredibly juicy, smooth, and satisfying.
Mouthfeel (4.5): Needless to say, the body is rich and juicy, erring on the side of full-feeling without coming off as heavy or syrupy. It’s definitely slick, though, lightened up only by the mix of grapefruit pith and slightly boozey, resinous hops on the back end. The carbonation is smooth, lush, evenly distributed, and pinpoint-fine, offering a nice little tingle as it foams up on the wash out. Despite its heft and slickness, this one begs for the next sip—it’s hard to put down, y’all.
Overall (4.5): In my opinion, this is a proper Northeast (D)IPA, folks. It’s juicy, hazy, aromatic, loaded with first fruity and second dank hops, bitter enough but that’s about it, slick, and still crushable. And not showing its actual size. I don’t know what else there is to say about this beer, other than it’s a legit NE (D)IPA.
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