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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8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Dec 2018
at 20:45
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2018
at 15:58
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Pours a hazy yellow amber with Moderate head. Aromas of tropical fruit, mashed stoned fruit, pineapple and soft malts. Flavours of mashed fruit, pine, pineapple, oranges ( without being really pithy) and more soft malts. Great to try the original after so many hazy knock offs. It’s worth the waiting.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2018
at 14:33
9/10
Tried
from Can
on 04 Oct 2018
at 21:56
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Can that has earned Pete a place in heaven. Thanks, man! Pours a slightly hazy light gold with a dense head of white foam. Aromas are lemon, light pine sap, a touch of cat pee, and a little honey biscuit. Flavor is most excellent. It's hop driven, but not absurdly so. It's a light IPA (lemon and light malts rather than caramel) and is very nicely put together. Things blend very well and it has a great cohesion to it.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Sep 2018
at 02:51
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
473ml can from Mikkeller Webshop. Pours hazy orange with a small creamy white head, good retention. Aroma of juicy fresh citrus and stone fruits, grapefruit, pine, resin. Taste of juicy stone fruits, citrus, grapefruit, orange peel, pine, marmalade, sweet malt, very resinous, and a very bitter finish, lingering, yet nicely balanced overall. Extremely moreish and drinks under its ABV. Medium body, soft carbonation. Deserving of its high praise I think. This is an excellent beer.
Tried
from Can
from Mikkeller Webshop
on 02 Jun 2018
at 20:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can, sample. Tasted on the 11/05/2018 at "Mikkeller Beer Celebration 2018", Copenhagen. Hazy yellow colour with a white head. Aroma is fresh floral hops, mango, orange zest and spices. Taste is the same with a very well integrated floral hops into the mango and citrusy. Sweet and juicy finish. Next one please!
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jun 2018
at 09:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can @ Brouwerij Lane. Pours cloudy orange with large foamy off-white head, faint orange aroma, adequate carbonation, bitter orange zest taste with coriander, increasing bitterness as you keep tasting, creeping in piney hops as if you taste layer by layer, smooth body, long finish. Poured in a glass despite the note on the can, and pleasantly surprised by the taste. It's really good, though not a 4.2 to me.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2018
at 19:12
10/10
Tried
from Can
on 12 May 2018
at 15:17
9/10
Wow, super fruity with a bunch of hops at finish
Tried
from Can
on 07 Apr 2018
at 23:26