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: 71
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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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle from Half Time. Great name. Accurate description.
Clear golden, off white head. Smells of vanilla. Tastes pretty much like a vanilla wheat beer. Tingle feel, light body. Maybe could use a little more of something beyond the vanilla and wheat, but I’m not mad at it. Got what I was expecting.
3.6: 7/4/7/3/15
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2017 at 20:09

5.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Crisp, ever so slightly hazy golden coloured body with absolutely no head at all. Aroma of wheat, pungent metal and medicinal scents and a touch of vanilla and oak, but not much of anything else or anything too pungent. Light-bodied; Deep super strong flavour of vanilla, almost too pungent, like a custard or cream, with a touch of malt (with no real wheat detected), some grasses and dry oak, but the vanilla and caster sugar sweetness come out more than anything else. Aftertaste is perhaps a tad too vanilla-centric with a lot of sweetness and vanilla/oak flavours and not much of anything else. Overall, an interesting beer, although pretty much what I expected, which is sad to say, not a great beer - good if you like light-bodied, easy-drinking beers with a TON of vanilla notes! I sampled this stubby-ish twelve ounce bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Pentagon City (Arlington), Virginia on 02-October-2016 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington, in front of the store on 15-June-2017. ’Best By: 24-December-2016 on label’.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jun 2017 at 01:47

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
From tap. Hazy yellow golden color with off white head. Malty aroma, sweet, vanilla, wheat, fruity. Sweet taste. Light thin to oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried from Draft on 09 Jun 2017 at 10:57

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap @ MBBC, Copenhagen, 2017. Pours hazy yellow with a small off white head. Vanilla and fruit. One dimensional slight synthetic and very forgettable.
Tried from Draft on 22 May 2017 at 13:12

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Sample at MBCC 2017. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma and taste of vanilla, wheat, fruit and some yeast. The finish was sweetish.
Tried on 22 May 2017 at 03:02

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Keg at cbc17 Red.. Golden.. Thin white lacing... Golden amber.. Thin white lacing... Soft vanilla.. . Light floral fruit
Tried on 21 May 2017 at 10:42

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Sampled @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration 2017, Blue Session. Fast klare goldgelbe Farbe. Geruch ist süß malzig, Honig, viel Vanille. Geschmack ist süß malzig, viel Vanille, ansonsten ziemlich flach.
Tried on 16 May 2017 at 13:40

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tap @MBCC2017, Blue Session. Clear golden, small white head. Vanilla aroma, light citrus. Sweetish vanilla flavour, light malt. A little on the thin side.
Tried from Draft on 16 May 2017 at 13:25

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Best by July 17th. Hazy orange, an " of foam. Vanilla, wheat, light citrus smell. Big vanilla taste, sweet notes from the vanilla and maybe honey. Really low level of bitterness. Nice use of vanilla, me thinks.
Tried on 05 Apr 2017 at 19:47

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
12oz bottle picked up at Total Wine in Reno
Pours slightly cloudy light golden with a medium sized white head that dissipates quickly to a small ring, light lacing. Aroma of grains, wheat, honey and vanilla. Flavor of vanilla, wheat and citrus
I like the vanilla in this
Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2017 at 22:16