Alpine Beer Company Pure Hoppiness

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

Bottle via trade with the wonderful Zug4abby, which came today. Pours golden amber with a frothy white head. Nice piney, citrus hop aroma with a tad amount of celery salt. Upon the first sip, I was rather surprised by the light texture, but in a good way. It really allows the grapefruity and resiny hop profile to take center stage, without being obnoxious. Nice bitter finish, and the big hop juice flavors linger, along with some lemon grass, without being sticky. Vac tells me its the number one selling beer at Obriens, and I can see why. Thanks again Abby.

22-oz bottle from Naven. Pours a clean and clear bubbly copper with a medium foamy white head, sticky lacing and lasting head. Aroma is huge sweet pine and resin hop, grapefruit and sap, some malt meal notes. Heavy bitter and mild acidity, tart and sour hop juice, pine and spruce. Medium bodied and fizzy, spicy, dry palate.

22oz - thanks zug4abby - Strong floral citrus and piney hop aroma with a solid carmel malt back. Pours transparent yellow/orange with a big sticky head and great lacing. Flavor matches aroma almost exactly. This is how I want my ipa’s to taste. Palate is tart and sticky. This is a nicely balanced hop bomb and a great brew.

On tap 6/12 @ the Liars’ Club: Pours a clear deep golden color with an off-white head that is mostly lasting leaving nice lacing. Hoppy aroma is typical citrus, floral and pine. Flavor is sweet with a bitter grapefruit finish. This is the real deal!

On draft at the Liar’s Club in Mission Beach, CA. Cloudy amber color with a lacing white head around the glass. Definitely hops springing from the aroma. Citrus notes. Bitter taste. Hops all over. Dry finish.

On tap at the real ale fest. This was catagorized as a Double Ipa. Like all hoppy beers this was very citrusy, piney, and a tad sweet. What makes it diffrent from the others is that there is almost no resin and ether. Very elegant and smooth with the malts making it nice and velvety.

Huge citrus hop aroma,perhaps the most citrus slanted hop aroma I have ever experienced,some grainey hop and malt underneath, lighter clear orange amber color, A quick touch of sweetness, followed by a mouth ful of hop flavorwith a ton of long lasting hop bitterness in the end. If you wash it around your mouth and chew it a little bit,you can taste that citrus you smelled in the aroma,but that bitterness is pushing its way in for your attention. A very unique hop beer,one every hophead will have to figure out a way of trying

At a mini-meeting of The LoSBD: This poured out a nigh headless, thick amber body and had a heavy caramel aroma topped with some resinous hop bitterness. Almost chewably thick with the malt, this nevertheless had a solid balance between the sweet malt and the pine and grapefruit hop flavors, the latter emerging triumphant in the dry, bitter finish. Not too shabby.

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