Nelson
Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Rye Regular|
Score
7.78
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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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8.4/10
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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
6.8/10
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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
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from De Bierenwinkel Ede. Straight from can during a holiday hike, at De Ginkelse Heide. Color: Hazy golden, white head I presume? Aroma: Hoppy, some tropical and citrus fruit. Taste: Hoppy, orange, orangepeel, grapefruit zest. Grassy hop. Spicy hints of the used rye malt. Starting moderate to over moderate bitter, finishing above moderate to medium bitterness. Light sweetness. Quite smooth and quite dense mouthfeel, over medium body average carbonation. Dry-ish finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2021
at 13:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
355ml can. Pale orange, fluffy head. Grapefruit peel, lime peel, pine, resin, lemon juice. Hoppy zesty bitterness. Full bodied, oily texture, soft carbonated, dry hoppy zesty bitter finish. Nice citrussy zesty IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2021
at 19:39
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Can at home. Bright yellow color with a medium sized white head. Aroma is malts, malt bitter, hop bitter and a distant hint of smoke somehow. Flavor is similar to the aroma: malts, malt bitterness, hop, bitter hops. I really like it, nice refreshing bitterness. Decent to medium body and carbonation. Very nice.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2021
at 15:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Large foamy white head left a froth on an unclear pale gold body. Malt, confectionery & floral aroma. Medium to full bodied, lively with a smooth back. Bubble gum, yeast, biscuit, sweet citrus & hopped up tastes. Really enjoyable beer - Straightforward.
Tried
on 17 May 2021
at 20:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 fl oz can from hopt.it. Pours pale gold, fairly hazy, with fine white foam. Aroma is hot, fruity, tropical, also citrus. Body is slightly on the thin side, with moderate carbonation. Taste is medium bitter, with lots of fruity sweetness too. Final is pretty long, fruity and bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jan 2021
at 13:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can picked up from Saveur-Biere, webshop, Lille, France and consumed at home Friday 15th January 2021 listening to Steve Lamaq on 6Music about to start cooking Lamb Keema Saag Balti, from the Curry Guy cookbook, with Dal Makhani from Made in India cookbook. Pours hazy, mmhh... actually a murky, milky yellow/gold with a large creamy textured white coloured head. Very soft mouthfeel, dry, almost Indian Tonic touch, however the sweetness rather rules out that quite swiftly, this is good in fact very good for not being the usual bombastic in yer'face Nelson hit, it's really nice, dry, some grapefruit, hoppiness zips across the tongue. Really good.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2021
at 17:00