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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8/10
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jun 2017
at 21:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at Ratebeer Awards. Pours a cloudy gold with medium frothy off white head that lasts. The aroma is strong tropical fruit, dank, earth. Medium body, juicy hop, dank, pineapple, mango, light bitterness, enjoyed this.
Tried
from Can
on 01 May 2017
at 09:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Thnx to bart. Pours rather unclear blonde. Small white head. Smell is fruity. Bit bitter, mild sweet notes. Taste is bit sharp, crisp malty. Fruity, the typical ’hazy ipa taste ’ nice intensity. Very good.
Tried
on 15 Apr 2017
at 09:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[1/29/17] Bottle/Can/Crowler/Growler at the RateBeer award ceremony bottle share at Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. Fruity, "green", dry, moderately bitter. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2017
at 17:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
The beer is a bright gold color. Looks pretty clear. White head. The aroma has lots of nice hop fruitiness. Apricot, nectarine, light kiwi, pineapple, mango, melon. A little bit of crackery malt. Very crisp and light. Mild bitterness. Good hop flavor. Light caramel. A little mild but quite pleasant. Easy to drink.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2017
at 02:03
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Canned 9/13/16, drunk 11/4/16, thanks to Joenugs for the trade!
Lightly to moderately hazy, rich honey-gold with a medium-sized, white head showing light retention.
Pineapple, mango, nectarine and watermelon are supremely soft and juicy in the nose with leafy, green, dank notes and light honey from the well-attenuated malts. No resin or alcohol. Low esters.
Still wonderfully hoppy at almost 2 months old! Juicy, soft and malty but well-attenuated. Pure tropical fruit juice, honey, cracker and balancing bitterness with low resin. Pretty nuts its this good at almost two months old. Really soft, juicy and yet dry with engaging carbonation with no alcohol or flaw. Thanks, Joe, this was great! New England is slowly taking over the world....
Lightly to moderately hazy, rich honey-gold with a medium-sized, white head showing light retention.
Pineapple, mango, nectarine and watermelon are supremely soft and juicy in the nose with leafy, green, dank notes and light honey from the well-attenuated malts. No resin or alcohol. Low esters.
Still wonderfully hoppy at almost 2 months old! Juicy, soft and malty but well-attenuated. Pure tropical fruit juice, honey, cracker and balancing bitterness with low resin. Pretty nuts its this good at almost two months old. Really soft, juicy and yet dry with engaging carbonation with no alcohol or flaw. Thanks, Joe, this was great! New England is slowly taking over the world....
Tried
from Can
on 04 Nov 2016
at 19:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at Final Gravity in Roseville, CA. Pours brassy gold with a white head. The aroma is really mixed fruity hop. Med + body IMHO. Flavor is so fruity it’s dank? Fruit for sure. For me it’s dank or close enough. Hoppy bitter finish. Didn’t notice the malt. This is a really great IPA. --- Beer merged from original tick of Mai Tai PA Tropical IPA on 25 Dec 2021 at 21:34 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5. Original review text: Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours translucent gold with a foamy white head. Aroma clearly declares wannabedank, but it's tropical too. Med body or better. Flavor is dank for me, but there's passion fruit, citrus and white berry. Caramel must be sought for. Clearly enough for support, but the hops obliterate it. As they should. Fairly towards dry. More than fairly towards bitter. Sort of tropical West Coast. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2016
at 17:04
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and light tropical fruit aroma. Grapefruit and light tropical fruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Earth and grapefruit lingers with light tropical fruit.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2016
at 17:51
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Tap. Pours clear pale golden, medium white head, decent lacing. Aroma is really pain fruity, lines, melon, Mosaic week presented. Flavor is light sweet, light plus bitter, tropical, juicy. Medium light body, creamy mouthfeel. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2016
at 20:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Harry’s Hofbrau in Redwood City. Massive tropical fruit and slight dank aromas. Hazy yellow-gold with moderate white head that dissipates. Flavor is grassy and tropical. Cracker malt in moderate support.
Tried
on 28 May 2016
at 17:14