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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8/10
Tried
on 10 Aug 2019
at 20:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can - lightly hazy gold - a wispy malt presence gives just enough for bitter hops to cling to, but fails to provide character - some citrus and pepper and not much else - meh.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2019
at 03:18
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Taster showing pale gold with sparse white foam. The nose shows a lot of grapefruit pith and rind. The palate is light bodied and well carbonated. Grapefruit forward with a lot of pine tones and a harmonious resinous pine bitterness on the finish. Pine accents are not overdone and the grapefruit keeps it fruit forward but the bitterness ties it together. Pretty damn good.
Tried
on 26 Jun 2019
at 12:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours gold with a foamy white head. Citrus pine aroma with a hint of tropicals. Very smooth mouthfeel; med body or so. Flavor is mildly roasty malt with pine/citrus and a touch of tropicals somewhat on top of the malt. Mild hop burn. Lots of hop. More than moderately bitter. Tastes very good.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2019
at 00:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
If you ever wanted to make IPA great again, this is the bad boy to do it. Deep golden color. Massively big punchy hoppy nose with pine, citrus and buscuity malt notes. Slight resininess. Sharp aggressive bitterness, off dry, with sufficient maltiness to even things out. Dry bitter finish with the pine and citrus notes. Excellent ipa
Tried
on 20 Jun 2019
at 10:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Gate code unreadable. The Aromas are fresh grapefruit pith Hops and pale malt. Flavors are like nose, with the addition of pine resin hops, slightly sweet of front with increasing bitterness towards the end. Good carbonation, body and finish. Nice beer.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2019
at 22:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
(tap) clear, fluorescent orange amber colour with a small white head; aroma of citrus, orange marmalade; intense, balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jun 2019
at 00:32
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured my own in the Barrel Republic, Oceanside California on 25th March 2019. Golden body, clean and clear; wispy white head. Citrus notes rule both the aroma and taste in this fruity, hoppy number. The citrus bias overshadowed any piney hints from the Mosaic hop content, but otherwise it was fine.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2019
at 15:47
8/10
Backlog
Tried
on 03 Sep 2018
at 12:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(On tap @ MBCC 2017 Yellow Session, Copenhagen) Pours a lightly hazy gold with a white head. Notes of pale malt with a clear bit of sweetness, fair amount of pine and herbal resinous character, grapefruit, sweet mango/peach at the core, a bit of oily quality to the hops, relatively dry into the finish with moderate plus bitterness, pine and earth, a touch grassy and a little floral as well. Medium bodied, slick, average carbonation. A solid IPA, quite drinkable, not overly complicated, stands out in this crowd for being more west coast in style.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2017
at 17:24