HFS
Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.42
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Yeah, it’s that good! HFS is our GABF 2016 Bronze medal winner in the Strong Ale category. This West Coast-style American IPA is light bodied and full of hop flavor and aroma. It pours a pale gold with a light, fluffy, off-white head. Featuring a combination of Mosaic, Simcoe, and Citra hops, HFS presents a bold tropical fruit explosion with hints of grass and pine balanced by a light and bready malt character.
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3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
3 bucks for this red & white can. Typical mild hopped pale ale beery nose, no BO for a change. Look, I don't like IPA and a can of IPA that foams all over my table and floor, really pist me off. Also, the taste is quite nasty, really. Its astringent as all hell; and has all of the nasty straight up ass characteristics of a bullshiter IPA. Yes, terribly on style, IPA that is. Its bitterness is not as well behaved and as tricky as better IPA, and, because of that bitter background, you know.......a little piercing astringent bite. The look of this beer is rather different, it looks like a higher gravity clear light okra orangish brown barley wine, or did I say it reminds me of a bear's ass whine? I guess its beer, but I'm not impressed. Do not worry, my say has been canceled anyway and that stupid donkey's backside astringent bite follows me all the way too dah-the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jan 2021
at 21:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can from Saveur. A little bit old-ish unfortunately. Clear golden with white head. Loads of resinous sourness, fresh cut grass and some bread dough. Refreshingly bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2020
at 16:35
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2020
at 20:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at home, golden beer, small head. Aroma is malt, resin, hops, pine. Taste is the same, resinous, pine, bitter, hops, long bitter dry aftertaste, very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2020
at 19:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Golden orange pour. Aroma of garlicy hop, orange, pineapple, grassy herbs, mango and bready malt. Taste has pineapple, garlic mosaic hop, creamy orange, bready malt, grapefruit and mango. Nicely bitter ánd tropical.
Tried
from Can
on 24 May 2020
at 21:53
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Golden colour with lasting thin head. Aroma and flavour have plenty of floral hop notes. Quite soapy.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2020
at 20:59
7/10
Tried
on 27 Nov 2019
at 15:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap. Pours light hazy orange with a small white head. Aromas of pine, resin, orange, citrus, light perfumey, malty notes. Taste is citrussy, light melony, dank, resin, orange, malt.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Herrlich fruchtiges IPA, das nicht so derb reinhaut, aber trotzdem sehr intensiv schmeckt. Fruchtig, crispy, leicht harzig, angenehm bitter, süffig, geil.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2019
at 16:44
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2019
at 18:07