Alpine Beer Company Exponential Hoppiness

Brewed by Alpine Beer Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Alpine, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle shared by Lunch. Thanks Paul! I’m pretty stoked about revisiting this brew, as I hear the recipe has been changed and the beer is much improved. The beer is transparent and light orange in color, with a thick, white head that coats the glass with lacing. The aroma is not kidding around. A powerful dose of hops and citrus in the nose and taste buds - no doubt this is an imperial IPA. Absolutely delicious with a great feel. This is 11% abv?!? Impressive. The finish is dry and filled with tangy, bitter hop goodness. This beer is highly drinkable, at least until I try to stand up. What an enormous improvement from the previous batch I tasted. Highly recommended. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 03-02-2011

Gift from S.J. First off let me say that this brewery knows ghow to make IPA’s Good blend of toffee and caramel malt. Nice citrus , pine and floral notes. Good bitter dry ending. I will have to keep my eye on this brewer. They are creeping up my favorites list.

UPDATED: MAR 24, 2013 Bottle pour, bright orange color with a nice white head. The aroma was resinous hops and citrus fruits and some musty barnyard hints and floral notes. Taste was very hoppy,resinous with lots of citrus zest hop bitterness and trace alcohol. Hop explosion through the palate, taste lingers a bit and the alcohol was almost unnoticeable. Very good beer, would love to try again.

Bomber courtesy of thome50 during Free Beer Week 2012. Thanks! Pours a clear golden-amber color with a medium sized frothy tan head. Decent head retention. Sticky hop aroma with resin, tropical, candied citrus notes along with caramel malts, wood and a faint bit of sawdust. The taste is intensely bitter hops... grapefruit, melon, tropical notes, lemon, toffee malts, peppery wood notes, vanilla. Medium-full bodied. Just the slightest hint of the alcohol. It’s hop juice... just as I expect from Alpine, but it does have enough malt to balance. Nice beer.

The aroma was overpowering with sweet malty notes. It almost smelled like a bucket of paint it was so overdone! Flavor is similarly complex, with an opening salvo of malt sweetness, undercut by very bitter citrus notes and piney hop bite. Pours a hazy golden yellow with mid-sized head. Very strong alcohol content really catches up with you, even as you sip this. According to the bottle, this is really a triple IPA, not simply a double, and I’d believe it.

Bottle@Work (oops). Aroma full of apples, malts and hops (not fruity, not grassy, what is it?). Yellow, off-white head, good lace. Pretty sweet, fruity (mainly apples), very bitter, lots of grassy/fruity hops. Very alcoholic, which makes you feel the bitterness comes from the alcohol instead of the hops. Bit unbalanced but not bad. Certainly not very exciting.

Bottle thanks to thome50. Cheers man ! Pours the definition of beer. Perfect, glistening orange with a small, lacey white head. Nose is punchy tropical fruits. Massive pineapple and passionfruit. Lots of sweetness but a pleasant balance at the same time. Taste is perfectly balanced and surprisingly scarily easy drinking for an !1% abv beer. Big on stone fruits and tropical fruits. loads of citrus. So much ’summer’ flavours going on. Damn tasty. Medium mouth feel is maybe it’s only downfall but the 11% is masked unbelievably well. Freakin’ awesome !!

Pours a clear dark orange color with a thick white head. Aroma is pine, citrus, and grapefruit. The taste is so fantastic. I had this on tap at Alpine this week. They brewed a single batch for some judges that were in town and I got lucky enough to walk in on the day they tapped it. It was so fresh. This is a hop lovers dream. It’s really strong but the alcohol isn’t all that noticeable. Great beer!

22 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a small off-white head. Aroma has truckloads upon truckloads of resinous hops, tons of caramel malt to back, quite a bit of tropical fruits, and some subtle oak chips. Flavour of intense tropical fruits and resinous hops, with lots of sweet caramel malts to back. More malt than Pure Hoppiness it seems, also more bitter. More intense, though probably on the same level of enjoyability as PH - would love to try this fresher. Awesome IIPA.

Bottle shared by either Jredmond or Vtafro I think. Pours golden orange with a white head. Tropical fruity hoppy aroma, with lighter piney notes and lightly sweet caramel malts. The flavor has tropical fruit, pine, caramel malts, and a hint of garlic. Nice, but just a bit too big, I liked Pure Hoppiness way better.