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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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle hauled back from California by Colin, many thanks to him for that. A hazy golden/orange coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, dank, citrus, grapefruit on the nose. Taste is much the same hoppy, dank, slightly malty, citrus, grapefruit and a little rye. Quite bitter but in a good way. A quality IPA from California.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2016
at 16:39
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a cloudy, white-yellow (like a wit), with minimal head. Aroma is full of a very strong grapefruit, with other florals and some grassiness. Flavor is big and bold--citrus/grapefruit, with loads of hop bite in the finish. Very bitter beer with a pretty dry finish. Top-notch.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2016
at 14:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours hazy gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to coat surface. Tropical fruit and onion aromas. Soft with sweet and sour caramel upfront turning to earthly pumpernickel in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2016
at 17:16
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle from The Beer Junction, Seattle; bb 16 Jun 2016
This is Nelson Sauvin juice, very pungent aroma, citrusy flavor; tropical, passion fruit, cat piss; a bit resiny in the finish; and because those guys at Alpine know their business, the body is dry, the malt flavor is very delicate, a bit crackery, so to not cover the hop.
Fantastic.
This is Nelson Sauvin juice, very pungent aroma, citrusy flavor; tropical, passion fruit, cat piss; a bit resiny in the finish; and because those guys at Alpine know their business, the body is dry, the malt flavor is very delicate, a bit crackery, so to not cover the hop.
Fantastic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2016
at 05:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at RateBeer Best festival. Light hazy orange liquid with medium off-white head. Aroma of citrus, tangerine, light blackberries, light grain and mango. Taste is dry and medium bitter with notes of citrus, tangerine, blackberries and light grain. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Great stuff.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2016
at 10:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at city beer store. Translucent golden yellow coloured pour with a sticky white head. Aroma is big nelson Hoo, tropical fruit, grapes and burnt clutch. Flavour is composed of burnt grass, zesty lemon, burnt pineapple, light grape, resin. Big nelson character. Palate is medium bodied. Highish carbonation. Solid. IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jan 2016
at 23:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy lemon yellow pour ith a big frothy white head. looks like a witbier. Hop aroma that has light pine and some lemony citrus. The flavor has light bitterness on the front and some malt sweetness coming in to join the bitterness in the finish. Very drinkable, well balanced IPA.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2016
at 17:06
10/10
Tried
on 05 Jan 2016
at 08:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Duckworth’s Park location. Clear golden with small/medium white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, light/medium carbonation, and pretty good lacing. Taste is herbal hops and slightly bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Nov 2015
at 12:10
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Draught at Deep Ellum, 11/17/15.
Bright tangerine-apricot liquid shows good clarity and a medium-sized white head with moderate retention.
I love this hop and the nose does justice to it. Lots of stonefruit, very big and juicy, with bright orange marmalade accents. There’s a good deal of malt behind it, adding lots of honey and white bread-like character. Fresh and highly aromatic, but there’s somehow a touch of resin here or sharpness of some sort. As well, there’s a definite plastic note that’s quite strong but not terribly bothersome.
The flavor confirms this as, though the flavors of the hop are delicious, the beer is just heavily, heavily bitter. Way more than is necessary to balance the pale malt sweetness that creates a medium to medium-full body. With every sip I keep trying to focus and enjoy the flavors, but my palate gets further an further harried by all of this obnoxious bitterness. Nearly exact same situation as with the other beers I’ve tried from them lately: duet and hoppy birthday. I have fond memories of Pure Hoppiness, and I don’t think my tastes have changed to be less tolerant of heavily bitter IPAs (have always hated em), so I don’t really get what’s going on with Alpine’s mediocrity these days (I usually like Green Flash, though I guess they have a high propensity for making overly bitter beers too). Oh well.
Bright tangerine-apricot liquid shows good clarity and a medium-sized white head with moderate retention.
I love this hop and the nose does justice to it. Lots of stonefruit, very big and juicy, with bright orange marmalade accents. There’s a good deal of malt behind it, adding lots of honey and white bread-like character. Fresh and highly aromatic, but there’s somehow a touch of resin here or sharpness of some sort. As well, there’s a definite plastic note that’s quite strong but not terribly bothersome.
The flavor confirms this as, though the flavors of the hop are delicious, the beer is just heavily, heavily bitter. Way more than is necessary to balance the pale malt sweetness that creates a medium to medium-full body. With every sip I keep trying to focus and enjoy the flavors, but my palate gets further an further harried by all of this obnoxious bitterness. Nearly exact same situation as with the other beers I’ve tried from them lately: duet and hoppy birthday. I have fond memories of Pure Hoppiness, and I don’t think my tastes have changed to be less tolerant of heavily bitter IPAs (have always hated em), so I don’t really get what’s going on with Alpine’s mediocrity these days (I usually like Green Flash, though I guess they have a high propensity for making overly bitter beers too). Oh well.
Tried
on 25 Nov 2015
at 14:29