Hoppy Birthday
Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Special|
Score
7.38
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Hoppy Birthday is known as “The world’s most celebrated beer.” A Pale Ale, it benefits from a heavy dose of dry-hopping and is truly a gift to the senses. This bold brew has an intense hop-bitterness, but the pine aroma is the star of the show.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Rekvium, Orla and Dolle’s dødsyge søndagssmagning, 2015. Pours Hazy golden with a white creamy head. Citrus, bready and floral nose and flavor. Soap, crackers and mild yeast. Bitter finish. Good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2015
at 05:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Dickworth’s Park. Hazy deep golden with little off-white head. Aroma is light herbal hops, medium/small body, low carbonation, and pretty good lacing. Taste is herbal hops and bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Nov 2015
at 12:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle while watching a western late night. Golden orange with frothy beige head. Nose is resinous hops with some citrus. Tastes of grapefruit, piney, honey, herbal, and resin. Finishes touch of menthol amd sweet. Bitter and crisp carbonation. Very pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2015
at 21:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft, growler guys. Hazy golden orange, small white head. Huge hoppy nose, citrus, tropical, and herbal. Heavy bitters for the session ipa style, really full of it. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2015
at 22:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 3/18/2016. Green Flash bottling. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy deep golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, light honey, bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great complexity and balance of bright citrus/tropical/piney hops and light-moderate pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, light honey, bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Good amount of pine/citrus rind bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, lemon/orange peel, pine, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of bright citrus/tropical/piney hops and light-moderate pale malt flavors; with a crisp malt/bitterness balance and zero bitter astringency after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, crisp, and resinous/sticky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 5.25%. Overall this is an awesome pale ale style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of bright citrus/tropical/piney hops and light-moderate pale malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2015
at 21:55
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Aroma: pine, citrus, floral, Appearance: clear golden, white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish, Delicious
Tried
on 11 Nov 2015
at 17:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Colonial Spirits. Fairly clear light golden color with a decent sized long lasting off white head. Light mineral water and bready maltiness with plenty of citrus pine and resin to counter. I could drink that all day even if it was my birthday.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2015
at 21:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Clear golden colour, white head. Hoppy aroma, resin, citrus, onion and pine. Bitter hoppy flavour, pine and resin. Dito finish. Nice! But calling a >5% beer a ’session’ IPA? I don’t get it.
(from 66cL bottle @ ZZT XII, ’Getting Joes’d to it’, Oirschot. Thanks for sharing, Abijen!)
(from 66cL bottle @ ZZT XII, ’Getting Joes’d to it’, Oirschot. Thanks for sharing, Abijen!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2015
at 17:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from tap at Atomic Cafe Vegas light golden orange with a one finger head. Aromas of fresh citrus dank pine and resin. Taste is a mix of malt and hops with a nice hint of grass onion and a lingering hop bitterness. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Oct 2015
at 20:42
9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 10
Thanks! to Abijen. 650 ml. bottle sampled @ ZZT XIII. Lightly hazy golden, little white head. Nose is chockful of lovely onion hops, garlic, pine peel. Taste is rich grass, onion, garlic, dank, rich, light malts. Very nice rich hop oil body. Very nice beer, at 5.25 % you could just as easily call this one an IPA as opposed to a Session IPA but that is marketing. Kids these days with their session fluff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2015
at 15:55