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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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and heavy hopy fantastic aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. Very nice.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2016
at 03:46
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap@Bishops Arms (Gustav Adolfs), Malmö (09/07/2016) - medium hazy golden orange coloured pour with white head. Aroma and taste is a medley of tropical and citrus fruits, medium pale malts, some light caramel, grapefruit, peachy, lemon, refreshing, hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jul 2016
at 10:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
355ml bottle. Clear, orangey golden colour with average, frothy, fairly lasting, minimalyl lacing, white head. Citrusy hoppy aroma, notes of mandarine, orange, grapefruit, marmalade; mandarine is concentrated in such a way that it carries along hints of liquorice. Taste is bitter hoppy, citrusy, notes of mandarine, orange, marmalade; lasting, bitter, minimally chalky finish. Full hop kick, (style-compliant) minimally weak malty backbone.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2016
at 14:26
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A bitter, hop forward Kind of a West Coast style IPA, except for that it’s session. Which I still don’t really get- session IPAs.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2016
at 18:55
8/10
Tried
on 07 Jun 2016
at 21:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle in the Californian sunshine on 1st June 2016 outside our holiday cabin at Big Bear Lake. Amber and hoppy! A decent blend of flavours with the hops leading in both the nose and taste stakes, piney with a malty base, liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2016
at 17:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 oz. bottle dated best by 7/29/2016 into a tulip on my birthday. A: Pours almost no head. Light orange tinted yellow. Crystal clear with a few bubbles rising. S: Orange flesh and zest with a caramel sweetness. T: Bitterness starting citrusy, becoming piney, then pithy. Juicy finish with a hint of sour maltiness. Even some alcohol. M: Medium side of light with lively carbonation. Crisp sip with an oily finish. O: Very good with well developed flavors; walks the line between all 3 styles. Among the best I’ve had but ultimately wont be a frequent purchase due to exorbitant price.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2016
at 20:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Bottle Shop Canterbury and drunk at home. Hazy amber colour lasting beige head. Fresh leafy hop aroma. Decent level of malt to balance. Tangerine and grapefruit. Really good fun. Soft in the mouth. Some bitterness. Light hoppy easy drinking pale ale. Good. If a bit too toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2016
at 13:18
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Drank van de Meisjes, small sample. Clear golden color, short frothy head. Aroma of grapefruit, citrus, slight pine, bit caramel malt. Medium bitterness in taste, some cookie sweetness. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2016
at 06:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at hop, burns & black. It pours clear amber with a decent white head. The aroma is soft, sweet orange, tangerine, nectarine, bread and candy. The taste is crisp, bitter, pine, grassy, green hops, tangerine, pithy clementine, straw and a touch of spice with a dry finish. Light - medium body and fine carbonation. Easy drinking stuff, but nowhere near as good as hopped.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2016
at 07:26