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The Alchemist is a family run brewery specializing in fresh, unfiltered IPA. John and Jen Kimmich originally opened The Alchemist as a 60 seat brew pub in the village of Waterbury in 2003. After eight years of success and growing popularity, they decided to open a small production brewery. Today The Alchemist currently operates two breweries in Vermont and distributes Heady Topper and Focal Banger throughout the state.
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8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Pours hazy gold into a snifter. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to coat surface. Mango and passion fruit aromas. Sweet with hot caramel, meadow and dusty tropical fruit skin upfront turning to dusty pith in the lasting finish.
Tried on 02 Apr 2022 at 22:38

7.5/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pours very dark for a red ale, i'd call this a brown ale by color. Smooth, creamy and very stable, slightly off-white head. Scent is mild, some crisp milder roast (caramel) from the malts come up, somewhat green aspects from the hops as well (beneath the maltyness). Taste is certainly more roasty than I expected from a red ale. Crisp roast, caramel, brown bread, toasted bread. Very nice balanced bitter side to it, certainly more than the average red ale, but not Typical alchemist hopbomb (of course, this isn't the style to do so). Lovely, easy going beer, but perhaps simply not special enough to trade for again.
Tried on 26 Mar 2022 at 20:25

6.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pours a nice near black from a can. Big oily malt aroma and flavor. Good beer.
Tried from Can on 03 Feb 2022 at 04:30

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pours hazed blonde, medium sized, fairly fast fading white head. Scent is citric indeed, green, but balanced and interesting enough - as citra can sometimes be a bit ... boring on it's own. The Galaxy definately helps ! definately has more fruitburst from the can, than it does in the glass. Again, drink from the can really IS true at the alchemist. Taste is full, very bitter (way more so than crusher / heady / focal. Citric, green, fruity (mild tropical) . Very intense. Perhaps just a tad to bitter for the balance. Still an amazing IPA, but not on par with heady.
Tried on 26 Jan 2022 at 12:47

7.9/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Canned 12/09/2021. Slightly hazy orange, white head. Smell is very piney, light citrus, dry. Good body and carb. Taste is properly bitter, very piney. Also tried from can, more pronounced bitterness that way, I think I prefer poured, but both are good.
Tried from Can on 08 Jan 2022 at 23:00

8.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 9 Overall 8.5
Hazy orange, plenty of fluffy white head. Smell is grainy, some citrus. Great mouthfeel, chewy almost, but refreshing. Taste is fairly bitter, but also has some good citrussy notes, not the in your face resiny bitter. I can see why this is a classic. Also tried from can, less balanced that way, but more beery. Prefer from glass to get full aroma.
Tried from Can on 02 Jan 2022 at 23:00

8.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Gylden flyder skum hvid tæt Citrus grape lys malt grøn blomst Bitter modrate sød lidt Cremet blød
Tried on 16 Oct 2021 at 21:17

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Tried on 16 Oct 2021 at 21:13

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Tried on 16 Oct 2021 at 21:00

7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Gylden skum hvid Citrus tropisk frugt grape malt Bitter meget sød lidt Oile livlig
Tried on 16 Oct 2021 at 20:59