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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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Murphy’s Law. Clear dark golden with off white head. Caramel, light cake, lots of weedy and grassy hops with some mango and lime. Just medium sweet and over medium bitter. Medium bodied. Quite nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2017
at 11:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Murphy’s Law. Clear amber pour with a thin off-white head. Notes of citrus hops, grapefruit, oranges, pine resin, bitter hops, slightly watery. A very clean old-school IPA. --- Beer merged from original tick of Alpine Beer Company Hoppy Birthday on 18 Mar 2017 at 23:24 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2017
at 14:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12 fl oz bottle from the Lions Den, Yarm. Orange gold colour, off-white foam head and aroma of tropical mango & citrus hop resins. Taste is malt caramel with tropical fruits, peach, spicy citrus, grapefruit and dank hop resin bitterness. Light bodied, soft carbonation, dry tangy earthy bitter finish. Very drinkable session IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2017
at 13:56
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Golden-bronze. Thin head. The aroma is vague citrus, some pine and light florals - all hops, basically. Chewy, lots of bitterness, lots of malt, including chewier types. The hops are resinous. It all comes together as fairly chewy, definitely straight up APA, not Session IPA at all. You can forgive that, but for the fact that it’s just too chewy to session. Ok, if you’re the driver and need something to nurse.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2017
at 19:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Near white, fluffy head left a collar on a translucent tea coloured body. Tropical fruit, melon & sweet citrus aroma. Sharp. Clean on the palate & very dry on the aft. Hoppy, bitter tastes of grapefruit, pith, rind, floral hints & mildly malty back.
Tried
on 03 Feb 2017
at 14:31
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sample on tap at Murphy’s law thanks to kermis. Thin white head. Hazy golden pour. Nice bitterness. Easy drinking
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jan 2017
at 12:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at Murphy’s Law. Near clear orange with a white head. Aroma of caramel malt, fruity hops, grassy and green hop notes. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and heavy bitter. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2017
at 12:48
6/10
Tried
on 10 Jan 2017
at 06:55
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle at home... Golden amber... Small white head.. Massive caramel toffee fruit nose... Soft sweet caramel fruit.. Long dry toffee fruit
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2016
at 05:43