Alchemy Ale
Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.44
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We practice alchemy every day turning water, malt, hops and yeast into liquid gold. Alchemy Ale melds years of experimentation and our special Alchemy hop blend, in a pure expression of brewing art and science. Join us in unlocking the mystery to the perfectly balanced, perfectly hopped ale. Alchemy Ale has a bright, distinct hop character balanced with hints of caramel and a remarkably smooth finish.
Proprietary Hop Blend: Alchemy hops are a blend of choice hops from the Pacific Northwest, hand-selected by our brewers each year. This secret blend is the backbone of all our beers, and the magic behind Alchemy Ale.
Malts: Pale, Caramel, Munich, Vienna Extra Special
Original Gravity: 13.8 Plato
Proprietary Hop Blend: Alchemy hops are a blend of choice hops from the Pacific Northwest, hand-selected by our brewers each year. This secret blend is the backbone of all our beers, and the magic behind Alchemy Ale.
Malts: Pale, Caramel, Munich, Vienna Extra Special
Original Gravity: 13.8 Plato
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to the Moncada folks during RBESG 2014 Grand Tasting. It pours clear amber with a small bubbly white head. The nose is soft, fruity, caramel and generic stone fruit. The taste is bitter-sweet, pine, tropical fruits, straw, light pepper and grapefruit with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Simple enough APA, but not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2014
at 11:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Distinctive tea nose. Hazy copper, medium lacy head. Tea and dried leaves flavor, fairly dry, minimal astringency, low bitterness. Mild hop profile, serviceable as an amber, lacking as an APA. Session APA? No, let’s just call this an amber.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2014
at 18:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle picked up in Wendover
Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing. Aroma is grapefruit and piney. Flavor is grapefruit, caramel and pine
A nice APA, not too malty. Crisp and clean.
Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing. Aroma is grapefruit and piney. Flavor is grapefruit, caramel and pine
A nice APA, not too malty. Crisp and clean.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2014
at 19:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance had a decent hazy pale orange color with a one finger white foamy head. It lasted about a good minute before dieing gratefully into the body and left some hanging leftovers of lacing.
The smell had a bright citrusy arrangement of fruits such as light grapefruit, orange, and lemon. Some light caramel malts present themselves as it warms.
The taste was bittersweet all the way through and balances a nice crisp blend of malts to hops.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability allowing just a tad of sharpness on the tongue.
Overall, I say this was a good APA well worthy of having again.
The appearance had a decent hazy pale orange color with a one finger white foamy head. It lasted about a good minute before dieing gratefully into the body and left some hanging leftovers of lacing.
The smell had a bright citrusy arrangement of fruits such as light grapefruit, orange, and lemon. Some light caramel malts present themselves as it warms.
The taste was bittersweet all the way through and balances a nice crisp blend of malts to hops.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability allowing just a tad of sharpness on the tongue.
Overall, I say this was a good APA well worthy of having again.
Tried
on 26 Jun 2014
at 09:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Ok pale ale with some hops and malt but not much of either. Finishes lightly bitter. Pours orange with good head and lacing. Tap at DC Beer festival.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Apr 2014
at 09:55
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
How: Draught.
Where: The Bishops Arms Plaza (Västra Hamngatan), Göteborg.
Appearance: Pale golden colour with a small white head.
Aroma: Grass, grapefruit.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Grapefruit, hops, citrus.
Where: The Bishops Arms Plaza (Västra Hamngatan), Göteborg.
Appearance: Pale golden colour with a small white head.
Aroma: Grass, grapefruit.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Grapefruit, hops, citrus.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2014
at 14:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 12fl.oz.Clear medium amber orange color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, hops, wood notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, hoppy, fruity, caramel, citrus. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130814]
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2014
at 09:07
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3
Keg at Bishops Arms Hamngatan, Gothenburg. Hazy pale golden, small head. Clumsy cardboard nose. Sweet, medium bodied, sticky mouthfeel. Fairly low bitterness. Useless junk.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2014
at 17:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
From notes, consumed on 4/24/13. Bottle poured into a tulip. Pours amber/caramel brown with 2 fingers of off-white head. Aromas of caramel, pine, citrus, light tropical fruit. Tasting notes of pine, citrus, floral notes, herbs, good hop/bitterness balance. Medium body with a semi-dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2014
at 00:59
8/10
Tried
on 25 Jan 2014
at 08:48