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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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at RB Best Fest 16: Poured a coppery color with a white head. Very aromatic hops aroma. Super fresh dank and citrus/piney hops blend.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Sep 2016
at 23:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler - pours orange white head- nose and taste of citrus, onion, garlic, pine - medium body
Tried
on 07 Jun 2016
at 18:23
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at De garde release and at rbwg. Pours out a hazy gold topped with a fluffy sand head. nose is big tropical fruit passion tangerine mango and some melon sweetness. Taste is more of the big tropical fruit juice hops mango tangerine passion sweetness with just a nice light bitter end.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 May 2016
at 16:09
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured up on tap at RBWG16 where it exhibits a nice clear deep gold body that supports a near white head of foam. The aroma offers up mango and pineapple tropical fruitiness as well as a bit of onion-y spice and then a dash of cantaloupe. The taste is a bit more spicy dank earthy onion forward than the aroma. Around the dankness are notes of mango, tangelo, some pineapple and then kind of drying resiny hop bitterness toward the finish. Wow. Delicious.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2016
at 15:28
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at De Garde quarterly. Pours a hazy gold with large frothy off white head that lasts. The aroma is strong dank and tropical fruit. Medium mouth, very juicy, mango, tangerine, light bitterness, very impressive.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2016
at 17:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Green Flash Cellar 3. It pours a light gold color with a white head. The aroma is strongly citrusy with orange, grapefruit and lemon. The flavor is very grapefruit forward with bright notes of flowers and light spicy bitterness. Really tasty. The Alpine IPA’s seem to be rounding into form under Green Flash.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2016
at 10:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft at RateBeer Best 2016. Pours clear gold with a creamy white head. Dank hops in the nose, with notes of melon and orange. Medium sweet flavor with some piney bitterness, mango, more melon, tangerine. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Lightly resinous on the finish, with further bright citrus and tropical fruits. Solid IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Feb 2016
at 06:31
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[1/27/16] Draught at City Beer in San Francisco. Clear golden. Lovely hoppy aroma with tropical fruits, kinda "green", and some onion. Flavor has mild sweetish malt, fruity, "green" and oniony hops, and moderate bitterness. Medium-bodied.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2016
at 06:41
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Keg at RB Best Festival, 31/01/16. Rate #15 K. Clear golden with a decent off white cap. Nose is peach, light floral notes, juicy hops, tangerine, toasted bread, melon, straw. Taste comprises pine needle, dank hop strokes, tangerine, mellow grapefruit, hint of leafy hop, orange pith. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close peppered with semi aggressive hop bitterness. Super solid IPA ... best beer of the fest for me.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2016
at 02:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at the Rate Beer Awards Festival. Big, dank nose of white wine, tropical fruits, grapefruit, wheat. Lovely fruit flavors. Soft and smooth, with great balance. Excellent stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Feb 2016
at 18:12