Mai Tai P.A.
Alvarado Street Brewery in Monterey, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.51
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Winner of FIVE Great American Beer Festival medals, three of them gold, including our 2023 award for American Strong Pale Ale! Plus a 2024 World Beer Cup bronze medal for American-Style Strong Pale Ale! Our drier, decidedly “tropical” IPA that’s light on bitterness, but heavy on hop aroma, courtesy of 100% Mosaic hops. One whiff and you get super intense notes of passion fruit, mango, and lychee. Grain bill of just American two-row malt and a clean fermentation keep it simple and allow these hops to shine.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint can. Passion fruit aroma with notes of mango, lychee, papaya, grapefruit and floral hops. Pours clear golden colored with a finger of off white head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with juicy passion fruit, lychee and grapefruit hop flavors. Finishes dry but smooth with mango, papaya and floral hop flavors. Quite nice.
Tried
from Can
from
Coaltrain Wine and Liquor
on 21 Dec 2025
at 09:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Beer Mongers. Clear golden with medium white head. Citrus, pine, some tropical notes, sweet with moderate bitterness in finish.
Tried
from Draft
from
The Beer Mongers
on 29 Jun 2025
at 22:00
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jan 2025
at 22:19
8.8/10
Passion fruit, mango and tropical. Good hoppiness.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Dec 2024
at 16:46
7/10
Tried
on 10 Oct 2024
at 23:11
7/10
Tried
on 10 Oct 2024
at 22:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Drunk from can. Smell of spruce. Aroma of spruce, hops, some citrus. Medium bitter, lightly sweet. Lively carbon. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 15 May 2024
at 01:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Gold body with white head. Citrus and sweet fruit aroma. Hoppy taste forward and backward. Crisp finish.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2023
at 06:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pint @Good Karma San Jose. Clear, pale, appetizing. Lighthearted sweet pine & dandelion. Crispy, bright, low bitter, somewhat acidic, orange, green grape, not really much mai tai. Refreshing.
Tried
on 21 Sep 2022
at 19:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can, thanks to Bytemesis. Pours faintly cloudy rich golden with small frothy off-white head, citrus-tropical fruit aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter citrus zest-guava taste, pineapple flavor, thin body, long medium bitter finish. Flavorful, almost overwhelmingly so,
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2022
at 19:28