Rained Out
New Trail Brewing Company

Draft at the Holy Hound. Tried from Draft on 17 May 2026 at 19:45

 

 

Interesting Hazy DIPA as the German malts come through the most leaving a Pilsner like aftertaste rather than a traditional Citra Hazy DIPA

 

New Trail has accomplished something unusual with Rained Out. They've created a Sabro containing DIPA that I like. Typically, I avoid this hop at all costs as it tends to ruin a beer rather than uplift it IMO. Rained Out has a nice and quite dank interplay between Citra and Sabro flavors including pineapple, mango, papaya, orange, tangerine, and coconut notes. Sweetness is low while this beer does more of what I love in an IPA: resinous, dank, and enough drying bitterness. It's hazy but not fluffy or overly thick. Drinkability is high, and booziness is low. This is an above average NEDIPA.

Pours a hazy pale yellow with an off white head.

Tropical fruit - star fruit, and mango - with floral and candy herbal notes in the nose.

Taste follows nose with a nice play between bitter and sweet.

A fingers worth of lush light khaki colored froth... Solid retention... Turns a bit creamier as is settled a bit... Color is a hazed straw... Exquisite nose of citrus and deep rich tropical fruits... Really sweet and really inviting... These notes are carried through to the palate but are balancing out by a rich malt base of biscuit and rye... Very good balance and depth of flavor... Feel is on the fuller side of medium with some prickly carbonation... Sleek with a slightly chalky finish... Excellent brew and a testament to one New Trail does better than most...

16oz can into a pint glass. Canned 3/20/25, so a month old.

Great looking drink. Thick dull orange juice body, small bright white head, thick rings of lacing. Aroma is mildly tropical fruit. On tasting, very smooth, fruity, citrus, faintly dank, abv barely apparent. Finish is a nice hop bite, some warmth.

Overall, although Sabro is well down the list of my hop favorites, this is a nice smooth flavorful double hazy.

Undated can into pint glass. Pours a murky medium gold color with a modest off-white head. Good lacing. Initial impression is grapefruit rind, orange, and tropical fruits. Mouthfeel is smooth and fairly soft. Finish fades to citrus bitterness. Very enjoyable DIPA.

 

 

 

 

Canned on: 3-20-25

A - Opaque medium golden orange with a very dense layer of creamy white foam.

S - Tropical fruit, citrus, tangerine, grapefruit, and a small bit of spiciness on the nose.

T - Stonefruit, gooseberry, cedar wood, lime, peach, grapefruit, and has some residual lime lurking in the background along with some alcohol presence.

M - Medium body that's pillowy soft and a bit chewy.

O - Decent but not totally sold on this one because of the Sabro hops.

It seems like every time that I turn around, New Trail is releasing yet CANother CANned beer for The CANQuest (tm)! I do not CANsider this a bad thing and I applaud their CANtinued efforts. This was a recent score at/from the Friendly Greek Bottle Shop (FGBS).

From the CAN: "Rained Out Hazy Double IPA India Pale Ale"; "Keep Cold[,] Drink Fresh"; "Brewed in Williamsport Pennsylvania".

I Crack!ed open the vent & since it was identified as being "hazy", I went with a heavy-handed aggro Glug into the awaiting glass. This resulted in the formation of two-plus fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, eggshell-white head with limited retention, quickly falling away to wisps. Color was a murky, turbid Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5), like a stirred egg yolk in my glass. I have to agree with the Notes in terms of the nose. It was highly tropical with the added inclusion of coconut! 8=O How did they do this? Mouthfeel was medium-to-full, not quite creamy, but on the approach. This made it a little light for the style. The taste beCAN sweet with flavors of mango, guava, papaya & peach, but then a lemon-lime bitterness kicked in to add an unexpected depth to the goings-on. It was on the semi-dry finish that I beCAN to taste the coconut from the nose. It was a really different quality that made it CANother unique stand-out. I have read some reviews in which people CANplain that their beers are too similar at times. Perhaps, but I think of them as variations on themes. YMMV.

Rereview 4.8.26:
similar presentation;
smell seems more pith and light coconut and less mango;
taste is more bitter, less creamy with pith, light mixed tropical notes, light biscuit and oaty;
mouthfeel is low carbonation, moderate sweetness, lower bitterness.
overall similar impression with feel and presence but less/no coconut.

Original review March 2020:
Poured into a grip shaped goblet: color is murky, dense gold, head is brighter off white with fine to small bubbles, head presents 1+ inch thick and lingers very well with some good lacing.

Smell is light mango, grapefruit pith, hint of coconut, a bit subdued for the style/strength.

Taste is nearing milkshake like creaminess without the flavor - one of their softer and fruitier hazy ipas, but not quite emphatic in its presentation. Flavor is mango, peach, other mixed tropical fruit notes, some coconut aroma/flavor interplay that is stronger in finish of the flavor, some booziness and limited malt flavor, but sweet in flavor.

Mouthfeel is low carbonation, bitter middle with moderate sweet and drying bitter finish.

Overall this seems like strong broken heels with a hint of coconut; aroma and flavor seem a bit lighter than strength would dictate.

 

 

This took some deliberation to finally rate the taste. It's fine, just a little different from anything I've tasted in a NEIPA style. Like every other one of New Trails' hazies, this is good to look at, smell, feel going down and it gives a nice complex taste.