Alpha Queen
Boatrocker Brewing Company in Braeside, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.57
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Maakun (16718) reviewed Alpha Queen from Boatrocker Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at Pre-Borefts tasting. Hazy golden with huge white head. Lots of herbal hops, grass, lime peel, sweet grains. Under medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Hell hopfiger, eher nasser Antrunk. Herb-bitter im Mittelteil, wenig würzig. Kurzer Nachhall. 9/8/7/7//7
cagarvie (40235) reviewed Alpha Queen from Boatrocker Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at pre borefts 2016 tasting... Copper.. Thin white lacing.. Soft sweet toffee fruit nose... Dry toffee fruit malts
jimgreen (21728) reviewed Alpha Queen from Boatrocker Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at Taps Beer Bar. Kuala Lumpur. Poured a hazy medium amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is light citrus hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a citrus light metallic hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Drinkable, but lacks flavour.
SimonF (3374) reviewed Alpha Queen from Boatrocker Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle) Hazy muddy amber with almost no head. Restrained aroma that is pleasantly hoppy - hints of citrus and pine. Light body with good carbonation. Great taste with a nice balance of hops and malt. There’s a light biscuity malt throughout. It’s overlaid at the start with some nice big fruity flavours - citrus and hints of stone fruit. A nice bitterness develops and lingers with a good finish. For a beer that has hops billed so high in the name and description, it isn’t very bitter and I thought the hops were rather restrained - certainly the aroma was largely missing and the taste whilst definitely hoppy was not hop driven. Anyway, a good beer.
omhper (45152) reviewed Alpha Queen from Boatrocker Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled at Cookie, Melbourne, Victoria. Hazy pale amber, rich firm head. Huge aroma of grapefruit and lychee. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Light and fruity, loads of citrus. Long bitter finish. Great stuff!
Oakes (33770) reviewed Alpha Queen from Boatrocker Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy light tan, light passion fruit and apricot nose. Mellow bitterness w overripe fruits. Really, it’s only 35 IBUs.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A very malty nose with lots of caramel and honey mixed together, followed by some soft citrus. In the mouth it’s much hoppier with grapefruit and passionfruit dominating the malt. The length is interesting - it’s not particularly long at the back, but it is really fizzy right at the very tip of the tongue, kind of like sherbert. A nice beer.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Alpha Queen from Boatrocker Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Copper coloured body with a tiny bit of orange tint and a thin tan head. Aroma of light hops, grain, apricots and some other light sweetness. Medium-bodied; Assertive hops up front with some metallic tastes, a touch of malt, some light caramel and perhaps some thin resiny notes. Aftertaste fairly mild, only showing a little bit of hops and nothing complex nor lasting enough to mention. Overall, a fairly light-bodied and underwhelming APA, but still - given the bottle’s proximity in location to where in was produced and where it was drunk - I’m very happy to have tried it. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from SlowBeer in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 31-December-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 26-July-2010.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
From a bottle (size mysteriously not specified). Has a nice grassy, fruity aroma. Flavour is sweet, caramel and malty. Nice assertive (if not massive) bitter finish. Almost the bastard child of a Matlida Bay Alpha Pale Ale and a Wicked Elf Pale Ale. Good stuff. Rating 3.7.
Rerate on 12/4/2012. (330ml bottle, IBU listed as 42). Pours a clear deep golden with a small head. The nose is a a lovely malty fruit combo. Has a huge caramel malt flavour with some toffee, along with some citrus fruit and nutty notes. Finishes with a firm and very satisfying hop bitterness. I thought this was good the first time, but I’m even more impressed the second time round. This is a fantastic APA and is criminally under-rated on here imo.