Alena
The Alchemist in Stowe, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
7.50
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An American IPA with a full malt presence. Layered with a blend of hops, dry-hopped with summit.
Previously 6.9% abv
Previously 6.9% abv
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Dave, I think, thanks! Hazy grapefruit yellow in color with a bubbly white head that dissipates quickly. Earthy light pine with bits of citrus and lightly fruity. Sweet bready malt backs it up. Pretty good beer.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Nov 2018
at 03:39
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at Phil & Julia's wedding - VT. Pours lightly hazy gold with a foamy white head. A punchy IPA, with ample citrus and pine, understated pale bread. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Lightly warming in the finish with relaxed piney resin. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2018
at 12:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours clear gold into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes to hug rim. Citrus and resin aromas. Dry with grapefruit and pith front to back. Lasting pith finish.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2018
at 00:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can thanks to William. Pours a hazy gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is dank and earth. Slick body, dank, grapefruit, lingering resin bitterness, very good.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2018
at 01:41
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small white head over deep golden beer. Not much in the matter of nose - seems a constant for the Alchemist beers. Bit green herbs, orangepeel, kumquat. Bitter-fruity with a light but good acidity. Finish has a burning backthroat. Again orange/kumquat. Some sweetness lurking underneath. Bit burning MF, sharp. Quite good, not spectacular.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2018
at 07:02
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from the source. Clearish golden color thick fluffy white head. Floral fruity aroma. Taste is bittersweet, more sweet than usual, bready fruit. Tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jul 2018
at 00:58
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can @ Malt & Mold. Pours cloudy dark yellow-orange with very small frothy white head, sharp mint-citrus peel-stinky cheese aroma, high carbonation, medium bitter stinky cheese-mint-citrus aroma, fresh mint mouthfeel, thin body, long finish. Such an incredible sense of freshly crushed hops! Delicious!
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2018
at 21:01
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at Owl Farm, Brooklyn: pours deep orange with a white head... looks nice. Aroma is ground up nuggets, loads of weed, earthiness. Taste is like drinking bitter weed. Interesting. Powerful. Slighly sweet finish. Quite good.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2018
at 22:17
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Can. Pours clear golden, large white fluffy head, dissipates slowly, good lacing. Aroma is dank and tropical, leaning to dank weed, mango, a bit grassy. Flavor is light sweet, medium bitter, dank. Medium body. Quite nice actually. Better than most stuff I have had from Alchemist recently. Interesting that they hit with a filtered IPA after having basically birthed the cloudy IPA movement.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jun 2018
at 02:01
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Can drunk 12/21/17.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, wax-brass-yellow with a small, white head showing low retention.
Nose is vegetal (bad vegetal) with scallion and garlic, tons of twangy mosaic and really nothing much positive. Alcohol cuts through as pine exacerbates things and the malt seems almost nonexistent. Some sparse cracker doesn't even begin to balance all of this acid, alcohol and resin.
In the mouth it's overly dry, lightly husky, very grainy and crackery and severely under-malted with no reprieve from the strong, peppery, vegetal bitterness. Vegetable stalks, scallion and pepper linger heavily on the finish. No juiciness, not much of anything, really. Even the age of the can (which wasn't THAT old and had been refrigerated) doesn't explain the lack of malt structure and garlicy-scallion and resin.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, wax-brass-yellow with a small, white head showing low retention.
Nose is vegetal (bad vegetal) with scallion and garlic, tons of twangy mosaic and really nothing much positive. Alcohol cuts through as pine exacerbates things and the malt seems almost nonexistent. Some sparse cracker doesn't even begin to balance all of this acid, alcohol and resin.
In the mouth it's overly dry, lightly husky, very grainy and crackery and severely under-malted with no reprieve from the strong, peppery, vegetal bitterness. Vegetable stalks, scallion and pepper linger heavily on the finish. No juiciness, not much of anything, really. Even the age of the can (which wasn't THAT old and had been refrigerated) doesn't explain the lack of malt structure and garlicy-scallion and resin.
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2018
at 16:51