Alpine Beer Company Exponential Hoppiness

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Bottle 22fl.oz.

Light unclear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus - orange, overripped fruit, moderate alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel light alcoholic. [20100709]

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a huge bubbly yellowish head. The aroma has notes of citrusy and elderflower hops, combined with notes of caramel, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrus, hops, malt, bread, and caramel, leading to a dry bitter finish. Thanks madsberg for sharing his 1000th US beer.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of madsberg. Pours golden with a slight haze and an off-white head. Intense aroma hops - somewhat herbal. Solid body, loads of fruit and residual sweetness. Intensely citrusy, astringent and herbal bitterness. A little much. 090710

22 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is dense hops fruity, peachy and grapefruity. Sweet, dense malty and slight caramelish. Bitter yet smooth fruity. Lasting fruity impression.

UPDATED: MAR 7, 2010
Date: December 02, 2005
Mode: Draft
Source: Pizza Port, Carlsbad
Appearance: clear light amber, whispy white head
Aroma: pleasant floral hop aroma
Flavor: big sweet piney malt flavor, great citrus character, lots of bitterness with a long bitter finish

Date: December 04, 2007
Mode: draft
Source: brewery
Score: 3.2 to 3.6
Appearance: hazy dark orange, frothy white head
Aroma: sweet tangerine and citrus aroma
Flavor: same big sweet pine and citrus flavor, nice fruity orange character, enough crystal sweetness to balance all of the hops and the long earthy finish

Date: March 06, 2010
Mode: bottle
Score: 3.6 to 4.1
Words: hmog
sweet tangerine if fresher and sweetner than ever,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ***+ /4

Hazy straw colour. Deep rich citrus, wood with light tropical fruit. Such monster hops. Astringent, extreme hops on the palate. Bone dry. Unbalanced, this pushes past my limits but I’m sure there’s an audience for bitter cantaloupe juice.

(Growler, courtesy of Bman1113vr) Pours a clear golden body with a moderate white head. Aroma of mango, pineapple, orange, florals, grapefruit, and tangerine. Flavor of hops (mango, citrus, earth) and caramel malt with a dry, bitter finish.

(growler, thanks kmweaver) Small white head atop clear golden body. Aroma is moderately sweet, mango, some passion fruit, pineapple, orange. Taste is moderately sweet, grapefruit, mango, light caramel. Sticky medium-full body.

Bottle, 22oz. There’s an orange tint to the golden body. Unclear, and with a dense, off-white head resting on top. Nice lacings. Loads of green pine cones and resin on the nose, some of the white part of orange-peel. Malty sweetness too. Full-bodied and with a nice level of carbonation. A bit on the sweet side, but I guess that’s required due to the bitterness level. There’s loads of green pine cones and resins on the nose, white sugar, canned tropical fruits and citrus peel. The finish is really lasting, with resiny, citrusy bitterness, malty sweetness and something best described as what hits the nose when you pour loads of hops into a boiling DIPA. Overall, too sweet, but still wonderful. Mmmm. Wonderful. 101112

on tap-pours a patchy light tan head and gold color. Aroma is simcoe citrus hops. Taste is alcohol, simcoe citrus hops, some medium malt. Dry, raw, sipping. Occasional.