Heady Topper
The Alchemist in Stowe, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
8.17
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We love hops – that’s why our flagship Double IPA, Heady Topper, is packed full of them. Heady Topper was designed to showcase the complex flavors and aromas these flowers produce. The Alchemist has been brewing Heady Topper since 2003. This Double IPA is not intended to be the strongest or most bitter DIPA. It is brewed to give you wave after wave of hop flavor without any astringent bitterness. We brew Heady Topper with a proprietary blend of six hops – each imparting its own unique flavor and aroma. Take a big sip of Heady and see what hop flavors you can pick out. Orange? Tropical Fruit? Pink Grapefruit? Pine? Spice? There is just enough malt to give this beer some backbone, but not enough to take the hops away from the center stage.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16 oz. can. Pours hazy gold with a foamy white head. Aroma of juicy tropical fruit, citrus, grapefruit. Taste is tropical fruit, pine, mango, grapefruit, citrus. Very bitter finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2017
at 23:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured from a can at MBCC first session. Hazy golden body, bubbly white head, spotty lacing. Fresh tropical fruits on the nose. Mid-sweet citrus flavours, lemon and orange, together with sappy peaches. Citrus peels to the ending. Soft in the mouth. Very nice, a bit heavy to drink though. (Copenhagen 12.05.2017).
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2017
at 13:34
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cans from Mikkeller & Friends Bottle Shop. Drunk from the can, poured a little to see it. Slightly hazy yellow with white head. Dry, grassy aroma with loads of citrus, fresh cut grass, hay and zest. Similar highly bitter grassy, citrus taste with lingering fresh bitterness. Superb balance.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2017
at 14:47
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy, orange colored, medium off white frothy head. Aroma is a bit malty, mostly strong fruity juicy and citrus hops. Taste is medium+ sweet malt, light caramel, strong fruity, grapefruity and floral pine hops, juicy, medium to strong bitterness, dry finish. Medium+ bodied, soft carbonation, oily. Quite hoppy. (can, MBCC 2017)
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2017
at 09:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
13.05.2017, 1 pint can @ hotel room in Copenhagen:
Nice slightly bubbly-creamy longlasting head, hazy. Aroma is slightly dry grassy, weeds, leafs, hay, hops, moss, bark, flowers, light malts, lawn, fresh wood, oatmeal, hints of harsh citrus peel. Taste is slightly dry grassy, leafs, weeds, minerals, hay, bark, light malts, hops, sap, fresh wood, moss, oatmeal, citrus peel. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly dry concentrated grassy mouthfeel. Nice.
Nice slightly bubbly-creamy longlasting head, hazy. Aroma is slightly dry grassy, weeds, leafs, hay, hops, moss, bark, flowers, light malts, lawn, fresh wood, oatmeal, hints of harsh citrus peel. Taste is slightly dry grassy, leafs, weeds, minerals, hay, bark, light malts, hops, sap, fresh wood, moss, oatmeal, citrus peel. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly dry concentrated grassy mouthfeel. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2017
at 16:05
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma had fruity and fresh hops. Flavor was bold and fruity with plenty of simcoe hops. Finished dry and bitter.
Tried
on 12 May 2017
at 03:15
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can @ mbcc. Poured golden color with a thin white head. Juicy fruity, tropical fruits, pineapples, mango. Juicy. Nice bitterness, tropical fruits, mango. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 12 May 2017
at 03:07
8/10
Tried
on 09 May 2017
at 22:22
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Another can at home kindly sourced by Maakun. Hazy golden with thin greyish white head. Full on fruity sweet and juicy pineapple, papaya, peaches, and dry white widow. Moderate sweet and quite a nice bitter. Medium body, malty sweet juicy and soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Heady Topper on 09 Jan 2018 at 13:26 - Score: 8
Tried
from Can
on 09 May 2017
at 15:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can shared. Bit hazy golden with good sized white head. Dank weedy hops, light cheese, onion, pineapple, mango, light cake, sugary malts, light grass. There’s nice weedy hops and plenty of fruits, but more ’balanced’ than Focal Banger, this has more malt character, even some marzipan. Almost full bodied. Very lovely yummie stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 09 May 2017
at 15:24