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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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ ZZT XII. Clear orange golden color, medium sized white head. Aroma is malts, grassy hops. Taste malts, grassy hops, hops, fresh, crisp, nice bitterness. Perfect suitable body and carbonation. Superb!
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2015
at 15:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ ZZT12. Clear golden with a small to medium sized white head. Smells citra hops, fruity, hops, fresh. Tastes hops, fresh, fruity, slightly malty. Great taste. Thin to medium body, soft to medium carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2015
at 15:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Uptown Market. Pours a clear orange hue with a small white head. A big citrus nose. Really robust fruity hops, grass, biscuit, oranges. Light sweet hop resin. Very good pale. Drinkable as it can be. Lovely.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Oct 2015
at 23:09
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Sidedoor. Big, bold, earthy hops. Pretty solid beer, but a little resinous, earthy, caramel centered. Hazy orange-tan body. Frothy head. Solid offering in some respects, but has that earthy caramel flavor I pretty much consider a flaw. Massive hop tones, but nothing else impressive about it. Earthy butter bomb.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Sep 2015
at 21:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Max’s in Baltimore. Pine needles and grapefruit nose. Flavor mimics the the aroma. Lot’s of bitter citrus. Breads malts balance by resiny hops are a nice combination here. Very lightly carbonated. Delicious.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2015
at 19:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
4 oz pour on draft at Spacebar. Golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of floral, grapefruit and lemon citrus, pine. Tastes of floral, grapefruit and lemon citrus, pine, light caramel. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Sep 2015
at 19:30
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Small shaker showing light honey The nose shows notes of cactus, cucumber, pine, and light cannabis. The palate is medium bodied and well carbonated. Flavors show a lot of clean tropical fruit and clean fruit forwardness. Upon warming up the corn malts appear on the finish hence I suggest drinking this one cold.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2015
at 20:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Slightly hazy golden color, white head. Big grapefruit aroma. Taste is bitter citrus. More bitter than I expected.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Sep 2015
at 07:13
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Alpine Beer Co Pub, Alpine, CA
Pours clear orange with a foamy head. Aroma of juicy fruits, biscuity malts, grassy hops, pine,resin and citrus. Taste is smooth, hoppy and biscuity with loads of fruits, pine, resin, citrus and grass. Finish is lingering bitter, hoppy, grassy and resinous. Awesome.
Pours clear orange with a foamy head. Aroma of juicy fruits, biscuity malts, grassy hops, pine,resin and citrus. Taste is smooth, hoppy and biscuity with loads of fruits, pine, resin, citrus and grass. Finish is lingering bitter, hoppy, grassy and resinous. Awesome.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2015
at 15:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ the brewpub, Alpine. Aroma has pineapples and peaches. Flavour has pineapples, tropical fruits and some biscuity malt. Also grapefruit. Juicy.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2015
at 15:11