Alpine Beer Company Willy Vanilly

Willy Vanilly

 

Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular
Score
6.26
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 69
Since “Willy” is so versatile and can be flavored with fruits and essences, we add a touch of vanilla extract to compliment the sweet nuttiness. Also good mixed with Captain Stout, a blend we call “The Captain and Vanil.”
 

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6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Poured a clouded gold from can. Bitter wheat acidity with a deeper finish. Pretty good

Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 01:37


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Deep Golden in color with a medium sized head. Aroma is roasted grains and vanilla. Taste is a nutty grain flavor with vanilla dominating.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 05:12


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Monday 27th May 2024, Shrewsbury Beer Share in Chez Sophie, five guys drinking beer and talking bollox. Bottle from minutemat's vault, well out of date and beginning to show it's age. Still had a vanilla sweetness but the aroma was shot and it had obviously mellowed somewhat.

Tried from Bottle on 28 May 2024 at 08:19


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Golden with a white head - Malt aroma - Malt body with hints of hops to balance - Malt finish - This was ok

Tried on 27 Jul 2021 at 16:27


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Bishops Cave. Lots of vanilla but with a hint of citrus to perk it up. Surprisingly delicious. Lightly hoppy bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:05


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can taken away from Beerfly, Bedford. Light yellow, a bit cloudy. Floral aroma with vanilla and almond extract character. Sweet with diet cream soda and gummy, gluey resin. Long vanilla finish. Medium carbonation. Just okay.

Tried from Can on 11 Nov 2018 at 15:31


5.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

0,33l can from Pien, Espoo. Clear, golden beer with small and quickly vanishing head. Aroma has grain and malts. Taste has malts, wheat and some hints of fruits and honey. Malty finish. Boring.

Tried from Can on 28 Sep 2018 at 15:16


7

Backlog

Tried on 07 Sep 2018 at 10:48


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can pour into shaker pint glass from Greg & Jane's Beer and Wine. Appearance is lightly hazy pale yellow with decent sparkle, 1/2-finger width fizzy white head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is wheat cracker, mild sweet/tart fruit. Taste is wheat and cracker malt. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, average-to-lively carbonation with slight numbing of the lips, crisp, dry lightly malty finish. Overall, nothing objectionable, but there's not much to it.

Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2018 at 02:08


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

RBWG 2018 at the source. Clearish yellow. Vanilla aroma. Taste is vanilla wafers --- Beer merged from original tick of Willy on 27 Jan 2018 at 21:38 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: RBWG 2018 at the source. Clear golden yellow. Straw aroma. Light wheat taste

Tried on 27 Jan 2018 at 21:35