Altair
Equilibrium Brewery in Middletown, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Horus Aged AlesIPA - Triple Rotating
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Score
7.19
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The brightest star in the constellation Aquila, Altair, is also known as the Eagle star. Located 16.7 light years from Earth, it’s the 12th brightest start in the night sky and it is one of the closest stars visible to the naked eye. Following up on our first beer with Horus, Aquila; we scaled things up to a TIPA using our SOTL process. We started off with a heavy wheat base paired with an intense whirlpool of Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado with a dry hop of Citra, Mosaic, El Dorado, and our favorite crop of Galaxy yet.
Altair pours a hazy and vivid yellow and has an aroma of citrus, pear, fruit cocktail, and papaya. The flavor is blended pear, orange, mango, papaya, and ripe melon; repharased: Five Alive juice drink with a grassy lime component that pops with each sip. This beer is soft and delicate for is size and our rainbow melon #EQjuice finish is waiting for you. It’s an easy drinker and will have you seeing stars quickly. Please enjoy responsibly while you gaze into the night sky tonight!
Altair pours a hazy and vivid yellow and has an aroma of citrus, pear, fruit cocktail, and papaya. The flavor is blended pear, orange, mango, papaya, and ripe melon; repharased: Five Alive juice drink with a grassy lime component that pops with each sip. This beer is soft and delicate for is size and our rainbow melon #EQjuice finish is waiting for you. It’s an easy drinker and will have you seeing stars quickly. Please enjoy responsibly while you gaze into the night sky tonight!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: golden orange haziness with a two finger white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: mixed citrusy, light pear, papaya, sweet melon, and a touch of orange pulpy hop notes; light clean malts
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fine juicy sweet to juicy bittersweet quality; finishes mostly with the mixed citrusy, papaya and melon juicy tones and light dryness
Texture: medium to full bodied, good sipper; pretty smooth along the tongue; light dryness
Overall: pretty nicely done NETIPA I would return to.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: golden orange haziness with a two finger white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: mixed citrusy, light pear, papaya, sweet melon, and a touch of orange pulpy hop notes; light clean malts
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fine juicy sweet to juicy bittersweet quality; finishes mostly with the mixed citrusy, papaya and melon juicy tones and light dryness
Texture: medium to full bodied, good sipper; pretty smooth along the tongue; light dryness
Overall: pretty nicely done NETIPA I would return to.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2026
at 13:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy gold with a three-finger head. Aroma was stone fruit and tropical fruit. Taste is also stone fruit and tropical fruit.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2025
at 05:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Fairly hazy deep copper, bronze and orange coloured body with a very thin, single centimetre tall tan head that fades quickly and leaves just about nothing on top of the chunky, moving and effervescent, eighty per cent opaque hazy glowing tint. Aroma of alcohol, plentiful malt, honey, syrup and strong alpha acid bitterness with deep hops. Medium to perhaps Full-bodied; Very rich malt flavours show first with a nice body and some nice sweetness from oranges, mangoes, syrup and honey with a deep floral and grassy note that adds a layer of dryness towards the end, but the alcohol, malt, sweetness and fruits show much stronger. Aftertaste is pungent with the malt, body and hops hitting hard, where the fruit and alpha acids fade a bit, the alcohol and syrup seems to get stronger, as would make sense for a ten per cent-er. Overall, a nice enough beer that shows a fairly good balance of malt and hops, a ton of sweetness, mainly from the honey and resin, but a ton of alcohol that shows as a true Imperial IPA at around nine per cent (a slightly easier drinking than printed on the label), so hiding some bite, at least. Good to sample fresh. This one wasn't bad of course, but not amazing and (at least from this source), too expensive for me. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Knightly Spirits in Orlando (Orange Blossom Trail), Florida on 30-December-2020 for US$8,54!, canned at the source on 11-September-2020, sampled at my house here in Washington on 24-January-2021.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2021
at 06:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bursting with overripe peach and melon, followed by honey, mandarin, wet grain, and a modest vegetal undertone. Finishes with an unexpected pine bitterness and moderate hop burn. Okay.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2020
at 00:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can, courtesy of Chris M. Pours hazy bright yellow. Honeydew, tangerine, lemon, guava, mango. Medium body. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Oct 2020
at 03:14
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 12 Oct 2020
at 07:52
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can from Livonia Liquor. Pours a clearish gold with a finger of white foam. Mango, papaya, lime and passionfruit aromas on the nose. A bit of tangerine and iyokan as it warms. Warming on the palate with some candied citrus, mango and dried pineapple. A little bit of fruit syrup and alcohol on the finish with some mild bitterness.
Tried
from Can
from
Livonia Liquor & Fine Wine
on 01 Oct 2020
at 02:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a hazy, darker, golden-pineapple, with minimal head. Aroma is just a touch on the chalky side, with citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor is a bit chalky (hop burn?) too, with citrus and tropical fruit. Fairly sweet, with a pine/spruce hoppy finish. Soft, full mouthfeel. ABV is fairly well-hidden on this one.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2020
at 20:51