Alpine Beer Company Nelson

Nelson

 

Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Rye Regular
Score
7.79
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 40 Ticks: 129
Named after Nelson Sauvin, an outstanding hop varietal from New Zealand. The hop is introduced through the brewing and dry-hopping of this complex and well-balanced IPA. A hazy straw hued ale, Nelson is topped by bright white beer foam and offers a tropical hop aroma. The pine and fruity hop notes linger, but are well-balanced by the smooth, malty addition of European rye malts. Enjoy this stunning and multifaceted, yet mellow IPA.
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bomber. Slight cloudy gold with nice white head. Grapefruit and mango and such. Dry finish. Pretty good.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:10


8

Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2024 at 14:28


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12 ounce can from Tavour. Hazy pale gold color. Fluffy white head. Nice lacing. Fragrant aroma of white grape and passion fruit on a biscuit malt base. Flavor mirrors nose. Added notes of lemon, lime and pineapple. Sharp citrus is the order of the day here. Dry and bitter on the backend. Very nice.

Tried from Can on 20 Jul 2023 at 04:19


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

A golden and murky beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has mandarin, grapefruit, also some other tropical fruits. Taste has mandarin, grapefruit, some mango, medium bitterness. Medium bodied. Very good and balanced beer.

Tried on 26 Jun 2023 at 14:21


9.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Blik 35,5cl thuis. Tropisch fruit, rogge, volle smaak, hoppig, bitter, juicy, fruitig, mango, citrus, witte druif, mandarijn, witte peper. Goede balans. Goed. (14-8-2022).

Tried on 14 Aug 2022 at 16:09


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

My first rye IPA, might as well be top of the list. A 12 oz can coming from the city’s only craft beer store. I have chilled a thick beer glass for this one. 98 degrees currently, seems appropriate. The delivery is a semi-transparent yellow-gold and some white, floating particulate topped by a frosty head of alpine white foam. I smell pine, grass and good possibilities. I have a drink, well, it all comes together. Cedar, pine needles, yellow fruit, some earthiness, bread, a just-right sweetness and a moderate bitterness concluding. Rather tasty and likewise refreshing in my current circumstance. A total throwback, thank God they still are around.

Tried from Can on 22 Jun 2022 at 22:15


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can Pours gold with white head. Seriously hoppy feel. Slightly earthy with leather bit. Nice one. Tasty.

Tried from Can on 01 Jun 2022 at 20:02


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can from Bottle Baron. Hazy golden body with a few flecks floating beneath a white head. Lively carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of earth, mango and black pepper. Flavour of orange, honey and grapefruit. Medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. Bright and tongue-tinglingly hoppy. The rye is expertly used and lends a nice spicy, biscuity edge, especially on the aroma.

Tried from Can on 11 Feb 2022 at 23:30


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

disclaimer: normally don't buy canned/bottled ipas that get imported if i don't know how fresh they are, but i was curios about this one. If you don't put a bottling or a best before date anywhere you'll get a rating even if it's not fresh enough. Pours a quite unattractive murky/milky golden, with a good sized pillowy white head, that shows quite good retention and nice lacing. The aroma is rather fresh/vivid, but not very polished: there's a bit of sweet malty base (white bread), overcome by resinous/piney freshness, with tangerine and lighter mango notes. Taste has a rather strong per style sweet malty base, and a softer per style feel. There's still significant bitterness/hoppiness though. As for the aroma, rather fresh but not very defined/polished. Notes of mango (now more prominent than in the aroma), tangerine, pine, light ryeish spiciness. Plus, a not exactly pleasant hint of some wet/sweaty kind of feel, altough really just a hint. Medium body, with medium to high (but rather soft-bubbled) carbonation, resulting in a smoother than usual mouthfeel. The beer was overall smooth, super easily drinkable and quite refreshing, but unimpressive in terms of depth and not perfectly polished.

Tried from Can on 03 Jan 2022 at 22:08


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Beer Republic. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, rye and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 051221

Tried from Can on 05 Dec 2021 at 18:27