Duet
Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.70
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Alpine’s original West Coast-style single IPA is made with Simcoe and Amarillo hops to strike a harmonious hop balance. Duet pours a hazy straw color and is topped with bright white beer foam. It offers a blast of resinous aromatics with notes of evergreen pine, orange zest, and hints of cedar. Big hoppy flavors mingle with geranial notes, while hints of citrus fruit and an overall lingering piney quality lend a touch of complexity to an otherwise simple and delicious IPA.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bright amber. Thin, bubbly head. On the nose, there is a touch of orangey simcoe, and more floral, brighter amarillo, though with a touch of pine and light malt chewiness. Really nice on the palate - sweet orangey goodness, with hints of pineapple. The malts are a touch chewy, but just a touch, and a bit biscuity. Definitely some strength to it, as alcohol really picks up in the finish. It’s not the most modern IPA these days - but you can tell why it’s viewed as one of the finer ones of the last decade or so. Quality.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2017
at 00:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bottle at my daughters new place in Laguna Niguel on 4th Feb 2017. Golden orange pour, full white head. Good hoppy nose and taste, light citrus and piney notes from the hop content, mild malty presence helps with the balance: nice, easy drinking IPA, semi-bitter and one of the best (for a visiting non hop head Brit) Californian IPA’s so far.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2017
at 14:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Nice cat pee Simcoe nose, heavy and potent, bursting with hop goodness. Taste is unexpectedly malt-forward, with honey-caramel sweetness that slowly transitions into a piney, resinous and vegetal back end. Fades bitter and semisweet. Solid.
Tried
on 23 Jan 2017
at 20:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Light golden body with a frothy white head. Aroma of pine, resin, grapefruit, toasted grain. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/velvety texture, lively carbonation. Resin/pine dominate this but balanced enough with some citrus/orange taste and sweet malts to keep it from being a resin bomb. Nice drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jan 2017
at 07:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beer Gonzo. Clear amber gold pour with a white head. Aromas of tropical fruit, tangerine, corn, apricot. Flavours of vanilla, dessert pear, apricot, citrus. Sharp, bitter citrus finish. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2016
at 11:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
I bit on this despite to 12 dollar price tag for the six pack - and I don’t really regret it - this is an exceptional IPA - clean malt base, with some honey, maybe a little melon comes out as the hops interplay with the malt - overall, though, clean and gets more dry and crisp through the middle and finish - potent but balanced hop flavors of pepper, grass, citrus rind - clean, bitter finish - world class.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2016
at 20:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wines, Sterling VA. Deep gold in colour, with a decent, white, head. Plenty of grassy hops, tangerine and grapefruits, a pine hit, and crisp balancing malts, before a dry, hoppy finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2016
at 14:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home picked up from Beer Gonzo. Best Before 11 Feb 2017. A clear orange golden coloured pour with a lasting rocky white head. Aroma is bright citrus, orange rind, little caramel malt. Hint of pine on the nose as well. Flavour is composed of semi sweet base malts with a hint of toffee, candied orange peel, faint grapefruit peel. The hops are a little tired, Assertive rounded layered hop bitterness. Palate is semi sweet and a little sticky, highish carbonation. Probably better fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2016
at 15:42