Alpha Pop
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Speciality Grain Regular|
Score
6.54
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A barrage of aroma explodes from the glass. Columbus, our high-alpha friend, lends a huge pithy citrus blast, with Ahtanum providing a punchy tropical fruit back-up.
Brewing with rye adds a spiciness to the speciality malt caramel backbone, giving a warm ginger snap flavour, before slowly the hops, barley and rye combine and build to an orangey, biscuit. Almost chocolately crescendo.
Alpha Pop is the alpha dog of rye pales; the leader of the pack, a firebrand for other beers to follow behind, in a full-on spicy hoppy assault on the senses.
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bergstaden (9523) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
golden with a white head - hop aroma with some citrus - Malt body to support a hop flavour with citrus - Lasting nhop, citrus finish - This was nice
fonefan (84534) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml. [ As BrewDog Alpha Pop ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, rye, orange - citrus, mandarins. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, rye, pale malt, hoppy, dry, hop bitter, light mandarin. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20141025]
Arsol (4727) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Orangebrun farge med hvitt skum. Lukter Humle og noe sødme .Noe syrlig og søttlig i smak. Medium kullsyre. Lett bitter avslutning.
Cunningham (15598) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy golden color with a fine white head. Looks good. Tropical fruity, rich hoppy and malty aroma. Ok body. Fresh balance between sweetness and bitterness. Dry ending. Smooth nice flavor. Hoppy, tropical and rye. Nice ale.
[Bottle from Meny Begby in Fredrikstad, Norway]
tiong (21350) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle from Prisma Sello
BBE 29.08.15 - Pours clear copper orange with a smooth head. Aroma of crisp malts, hints of herbal hops, grass, citrus and rye bread. Taste is crisp, malty and slightly bready with notes of herbal hops, grass and citrus, hints of rye. Finish is smooth, hoppy and crisp with hints of malts. Okay.
Rasmus40 (37007) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - grass and citrus. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 251014
Finn (18112) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Flaske 330ml fra dagligvarebutikk i Tromsø. Gyldenbrun. Svakt uklar. Bra skum som daler sakte. OK fruktaroma. Fersken. Smaken er syrlig frukt. Umodne plommer. Frisk. Avslutter litt tørt.
TET (6603) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
A light yellow beer with a weak and white head. The nose has tropical fruits, some grapefruits, sweetness of fructose. Taste has balanced bitterness, the bitterness is slightly piney and herbal, some tropical fruits, also richness and spicyness of rye. At least medium bodied, low carbonation, good bodied. Nice beer that isn’t too watery.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Alpha Pop from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottles shared at a rating session in Bodø, bought at an EuroSpar store. Clear amber coloured body under a bubbly white head. Spotty lacing. Smell of bread and dusty hops. Fine balanced taste of mid-sweet fruity hops and bready malts. Mild citrus peels to the ending. Medium bodied. A nice one with session qualities (Bodø 03.10.2014).