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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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Tap. Pours quite hazy orange amber, medium white head, good lacing. Aroma is very nice grapefruit, Passionfruit, dank. Flavor is the same, light sweet, light bitter, not harsh, fruity and a bit dank. Medium body, creamy. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2014
at 12:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
In draught at Harry’s Hofbrau. Big grapefruit, citrus and floral hop with moderate earth. Clear golden-copper with white head that dissipates quickly. Resin, earth and pine aroma. High bitterness. Sweet soup cracker malt. Juicy fruit lingers long on the palate.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2014
at 20:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours translucent golden amber with a white head. Aroma is near cat pee with some not citrus fruits. Med body. Flavor is citrus and other fruits. Lots of flavor. A lightly roast malt is detectable thru all the hop. Finishes nicely bitter, maybe with a touch of pineapple.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jun 2014
at 15:50
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Pours a nice medium orange. Fairly cloudy. Nice big white head. Lots of fine foam, which leaves a whole bunch of lacing behind. Aroma is orange, tangerine and pineapple. Lots of nice hop flavor bouncing around. I’m not getting any malt character, really. Smells like a nice clean yeast. A touch of mineral water flavor. Lots of hop flavor in the taste. Very dry. Just a hint of biscuity malt. Medium bitter. The dryness amps up that bitterness some in the finish and I’m getting some solid grapefruit pith and pine resin. Tasty stuff. Very refreshing. Not quite as bright as some hoppy pales/session IPAs. Mouthfeel is light. Prickly carbonation. Good hop bite.
Tried
on 19 Jun 2014
at 12:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Growler Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is smooth peachy and slight grapefruity. Crisp, bitter and light citrusy. Dry, herbal and smooth Bitter and light floral fruity. Dry and bitter into the finish.
Tried
from Growler
on 29 Jul 2012
at 02:13
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Poured up on cask at the brewpub, dry hoped with Citra, with sort of a dirty yet clear gold body with loose like white head. The aroma offers up some grapefruit, citrus cotton candy and floral hop notes around the edges. The taste, despite the cask pour, un leashes a bounty of hoppy goodness that’s a mix of grapefruit, mango, spicy hops and a white wine like quality. There are various flavor hops to start and then the experience flows into increasing levels of drying bitter hoppiness into the finish. It has a fairly thin sessionable body making for a crisp pulsating flavored Pale Ale. Damn.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 May 2012
at 20:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Pizza Port, Carlsbad
Appearance: Clear golden with a medium sized white head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Fruity and fresh citrus
Taste: Tropical fruit and grapefruit
Very enjoyable. I wasn’t the only one, a fly dive bombed into it when I was half way through a pint. Scooped him out and kept enjoying it.
Appearance: Clear golden with a medium sized white head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Fruity and fresh citrus
Taste: Tropical fruit and grapefruit
Very enjoyable. I wasn’t the only one, a fly dive bombed into it when I was half way through a pint. Scooped him out and kept enjoying it.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Sep 2011
at 20:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap. Pours with a clear golden body and a large white head. Aroma is huge, amarilloish tropical fruit, caramel, and good all the way around. Taste is fruity, mildly bitter finish, mango, nectarine and dry. Lively bubbles, well attenuated.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Aug 2010
at 10:38