Alpine Beer Company Bad Boy IPA

Brewed by Alpine Beer Company (CA)
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Alpine, California USA

Pours oily copper with a small white head. Sweet, floral aroma of tropical fruits, grapefruit, and sweet bread. Super-sweet resiny hops up front and throughout. Good amount of oranges, nectarines, and kiwi fruit flavors, but very little pine. Sticky caramel finish.

Date: 11/30/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Liars Club

clear dark yellow, wispy white head, sweet piney malt aroma and flavor, nice long bitter finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

Draft. Amber beer with a cream colored head. Grapefruit aroma, but not that strong. Grapefruit and other tropical fruit flavors with backing malt. Hop flavor is there, bu tneeds more bitterness - very disapointing for an IIPA. Creamy mouthfeel. medium bodied. Not nearly enough lingering bitterness.

Draft at PP Carlsbad. Golden yellow color with a nice white head. Lots of apricot, pineapple, citrus aromas with touches of vanilla too. Flavors were similar with sweet malts to back it up. Floral flavors came through more as the beer wamed. Pretty good stuff.

On tap Carlsbad Pizza Port. Wow, big hoppy aroma. Yellow color. Small bubble head that dies quickly. West coast grape fruit hop bitterness. Similar to, but not as chewy, as Green Flash’s IPA. Not super drinkable, but a good beer.

Growler. Pours gold with a stable 2 finger head. Nose is beautifally hoppy as I would expect from the hop masters at Alpine. I’ll agree with Kevin aka bikesandbeer not quite as hoppy in the taste more citrussy and sweet, but then again thats the kind of beer Alpine makes that I can drink by the growler. Damn thats sweet and yummy. Nice beer to have after a couple of margaritas.

from a growler picked up by WeeheavySD. great hop aroma from the second i open the cap. pours a very bright golden with a little less than two fingers of fluffy white head. Aroma is od citrus hops, but with a good amount of malt, too. flavor isn’t quite as hoppy as the nose would indicate. sweet malt but with a clean bitter finish. A very sessionable DIPA. this could get me in trouble.

On tap at the Liars Club on 11/30/06: Pours a clear deep golden bronze with a spotty-lacing white head. Aroma of sweet pale malt and fresh piny grapefruity hops. Starts sweet, caramely malty and viscous among a ton of fresh, green piny hops, thinning slightly toward a bittersweet finish. A pretty nice double IPA.

Cask at 2009 PP Real Ale Fest: Transparent orange bronze with a thin, wispy white head. Aroma of fresh resiny grapefruity hops and sweet pale malt. Body starts with good toasty toffee malty sweetness with some light fruity notes and a ton of fresh citrusy flavoring hop balance before a crisp bittersweet finish. A very nice IIPA.