Melvin Brewing Cloudy 5000 Hazy Double IPA

Beer Name: Cloudy 5000
Brewery: Melvin Brewing (Alpine, WY)
ABV: 8.2%

How sold: 12 oz cans; on draft
Where bought: Belmont Station (Portland, OR)
Price: $3.94 for 12 oz can

Date Canned: May 14, 2019
Date Purchased: May 26, 2019
Date Drank: May 27, 2019
When brewed? Rotating beer. Part of their Rotational Imperial India Pale Ale (RIIPA) Series. Available May and June 2019.

What's on the Can/Website: "We revved up the Melvin machine to maximum juice per minute for this hazy RIIPA. Additions of flaked oats and wheat create a pillowy mouthfeel, and massive amounts of Mosaic and Citra hops provide a juice box of ripe mango, passionfruit, papaya, and pineapple flavors. Until next time...Cloudy 5 Gs." Read more here!

Where distributed: Melvin Brewing currently distributes to Wyoming, California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, and New York. Check their BeerFinder for the latest!

REVIEW:

Appearance (5%): Poured hazy light orange into a pint glass. Unfiltered. White head, some lacing. 4.5/5

Smell (25%): Mostly dank/hoppy/lupulin, with hints of tropical citrus and stone fruit. 4.5/5

Taste (40%): Slightly dank at the start, but the tropical citrus quickly takes center stage. Lots of citrus and stone fruit flavors. Complementing oaty and wheat malts. Aftertaste is a fairly assertive citrus tangerine/grapefruit. Any bitterness is limited to citrus peel. 4.75/5

Mouthfeel (10%): Medium to medium-full bodied, some carbonation. Very juicy with some dry tongue. 4.25/5

Overall (20%): An outstanding Double IPA. When I saw Melvin went into the hazy IPA game (even briefly), I had to buy it. While it's very dank and hoppy on the nose, it drinks more like a New England-style beer of the same ABV. Tasty and wonderful execution. 4.5/5

Final Weighted Rating: 4.575/5