Alpha Centauri Imperial IPA
Hop Valley Brewing Company in Eugene, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.31
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Big flavor, intense pine and citrus aromas dominate this brew. We keep the malt profile clean in this Imperial IPA to let the love lights shine on the fine NW hops.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; hazy light copper pour with a frothy off white head, malt and pine aroma, taste has light pine, mango, taste is not as hop forward as I’d like what is there is pine and tangerine, sweet caramel, bitter grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2014
at 12:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ home. Hazy light orange color, medium sized white to off-white head. Aroma is malts, hops, oranges, pine. Taste malts, hops, a hint of orangepeel, lightly resin, quite some pine and spruce and piney bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Not as fruity as you might expect, but I like those piney bitter ones.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2014
at 15:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
650 ml. bottle sampled @ Firestone Walker Tasting. Thank you! Hazy orange, creamy white. Nose is substantial yeast presence, thick, citrus, honey. Taste is honey, medicinal hop, muted dough, citrus peel, med. bitter. Tad yeasty body. Could have used more outspoken hop-character here & less yeast, cleaner, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 15:27
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Hop Valley Alpha Centauri Binary IPA (by Hop Valley Brewing Company (Tenth and Blake - Molson Coors)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
19/X/14 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle from Biernavigatie (webshop, NL) @ Beuk's postponed Firestone Walker and other nice beers allowed as well tasting (Brussels) - BB: n/a (2014-1227)
Clear orange beer, creamy off-white head, little stable, non adheisve. Aroma: lots of honey, sweet, some orange peel. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: fruity start, some honey, sweet malts, citrus, very bitter, bit of caramel, hoppy. Aftertaste: sweet malts, honey, bitter, citrus, grassy, very fruity, some passion fruit. Nice stuff!
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
19/X/14 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle from Biernavigatie (webshop, NL) @ Beuk's postponed Firestone Walker and other nice beers allowed as well tasting (Brussels) - BB: n/a (2014-1227)
Clear orange beer, creamy off-white head, little stable, non adheisve. Aroma: lots of honey, sweet, some orange peel. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: fruity start, some honey, sweet malts, citrus, very bitter, bit of caramel, hoppy. Aftertaste: sweet malts, honey, bitter, citrus, grassy, very fruity, some passion fruit. Nice stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 13:04
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from The Beer Junction, Seattle
Beautiful color, bright light amber, hazy, with medium sized compact head. The aroma is not expressive, it has some malt and hops but it’s a bit stale. Good body strength, smooth mouthfeel; lean pale malts flavor, again not expressive, with very strong bitterness, woody bitterness too, some resins and not much fruity character.
Disappointing.
Beautiful color, bright light amber, hazy, with medium sized compact head. The aroma is not expressive, it has some malt and hops but it’s a bit stale. Good body strength, smooth mouthfeel; lean pale malts flavor, again not expressive, with very strong bitterness, woody bitterness too, some resins and not much fruity character.
Disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2014
at 00:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
26th August 2014
Hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth and airy, fine carbonation. The malt is clean, as promised on the label, and is slightly sweet with a touch of cream. Hops are spicy pine. Some drying alcohol aniseed, but no real heat. Touch of citrus before a semi dry finish. Decent and drinkable.
Hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth and airy, fine carbonation. The malt is clean, as promised on the label, and is slightly sweet with a touch of cream. Hops are spicy pine. Some drying alcohol aniseed, but no real heat. Touch of citrus before a semi dry finish. Decent and drinkable.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2014
at 08:27