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 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 9
Thick white head. Light Amber color. Dry fragerent nose with lots of pine and citrus notes. Super well balanced, super dry, super hoppy, super Uber good. Hugely quaffable. Everything I want from a California pale ale.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2015
at 07:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
On tap at Park Burger RiNo pours a clear gold with some fluffy, lacing white head. Nose is what you expect from Alpine, grassy, straw, lemon, some mild herbs, lightly dank, some garlic scape. Flavor follows, just a kiss of light malt, then grass, pine, orange, tangerine, herbs, soap. Medium bodied, dry and very drinkable. A treat.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jun 2015
at 21:58
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Growler thanks to Gibson. Pours a cloudy yellow gold with small frothy white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is strong tropical fruit and pine. Thin mouth, grapefruit, pine, light bitterness, crushable, very nice.
Tried
from Growler
on 26 May 2015
at 17:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at Happy Gnome. Pours a clear orange with a gold hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a dank pine note with a decent amount of bitter grapefruit and a sweet grain backbone. Flavor has some bitter grapefruit and pine with a hint of citrus and an earthy grain backbone.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 May 2015
at 10:38