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Alphadelic IPA
Hop Valley Brewing Company
- From:
- Hop Valley Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #2,361 - ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #18,247 - Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 9.11%
- Reviews:
- 84
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 30, 2023
- Added:
- May 21, 2009
- Wants:
- 12
- Gots:
- 94
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Reviewed by chum_husk from Minnesota
3.13/5 rDev -18.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3
3.13/5 rDev -18.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3
12oz pour at tuttles
Orange, lace, all dat, smell is wet hops, tsste is grassy, light, shockingly 7.2%, drinks like a 5% homebrew. Bitter and malty, too sweet. Pretty standard, otherwise, forgettable
Dec 28, 2021Orange, lace, all dat, smell is wet hops, tsste is grassy, light, shockingly 7.2%, drinks like a 5% homebrew. Bitter and malty, too sweet. Pretty standard, otherwise, forgettable
Reviewed by RJLarse from Washington
3.93/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12-pack of cans. Pours a pale gold color with a thin bubbly white head. A mild fruity aroma. The flavor is well balanced with a light sweet bread flavor. Clean finish with a mildly bitter aftertaste. A nice IPA.
Jun 27, 2021Reviewed by timon from California
3.91/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.91/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Look is nothing too interesting. Has some small head, some lacing, and a cloudy golden color that resolves itself to a standard beer color for the IPA style. Honey, hops, and light tropical fruits dominate the smell. The mouthfeel is light with a syrupy quality, though. The taste is not quite as good as the smell or mouthfeel. It's just a bit one dimensional in its maltiness--the hops, as the head shows, are now that strong here. Overall, not bad for the price. You get what you pay for.
Mar 01, 2021Reviewed by TheBricenator from Oregon
3.79/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Look: Almost clear burnt orange with a lively pure white head that forms and settles to a nice lid, leaving good lacing behind
Aroma: Sweet orange, pomelo, mixed berries, some pine, and bready and slightly sweet malt
Taste: A huge citrus fruit punch hits hard and fast and is followed by a strong, resinous hop flower note along with some pine sap. Bready malt holds the backbone but lets the hops shine and finishes with very strong pine and lightly citrus hop bite
Mouthfeel: Full, a little slick, medium-high carbonation, and quite dry on the finish
Overall: I dig it. This beer is, has been, and hopefully always will be exactly what it started out as – a throwback West Coast IPA. All the pine/citrus hops, a good malt base, and strong bite and dryness on the finish. One of my go-to’s when I want classic WCIPA hop goodness and high bitterness/dryness for a reasonable price
Mar 01, 2021Aroma: Sweet orange, pomelo, mixed berries, some pine, and bready and slightly sweet malt
Taste: A huge citrus fruit punch hits hard and fast and is followed by a strong, resinous hop flower note along with some pine sap. Bready malt holds the backbone but lets the hops shine and finishes with very strong pine and lightly citrus hop bite
Mouthfeel: Full, a little slick, medium-high carbonation, and quite dry on the finish
Overall: I dig it. This beer is, has been, and hopefully always will be exactly what it started out as – a throwback West Coast IPA. All the pine/citrus hops, a good malt base, and strong bite and dryness on the finish. One of my go-to’s when I want classic WCIPA hop goodness and high bitterness/dryness for a reasonable price
Reviewed by CarolinaCardinals from North Carolina
3.71/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Picked up as part of the Hop Mixer 12 pack from TW Arrowhead 3-17-20 for $1.17 per bottle. Best by 6-20-20; consumed 5-22-20. Cold stored since purchase.
Beer poured golden orange with a beautiful white head that has some great hang time.
Nose is subdued with hints of citrus and stone fruits.
Taste is set up by a sweet but not cloying medium pale malt base that has a generous hopping tinged with orange, grapefruit, and peach. Finishes with a pleasant bitterness; 7/10 on my scale.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied and fairly refreshing and smooth.
Overall this beer takes me back to how IPA's were 7-10 years ago with the residual sugar offset by ample hopping; in this case 90 IBU's. Likable beer that is budget friendly.
May 22, 2020Beer poured golden orange with a beautiful white head that has some great hang time.
Nose is subdued with hints of citrus and stone fruits.
Taste is set up by a sweet but not cloying medium pale malt base that has a generous hopping tinged with orange, grapefruit, and peach. Finishes with a pleasant bitterness; 7/10 on my scale.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied and fairly refreshing and smooth.
Overall this beer takes me back to how IPA's were 7-10 years ago with the residual sugar offset by ample hopping; in this case 90 IBU's. Likable beer that is budget friendly.
Reviewed by Troy-Hawaii from Hawaii
3.5/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bought a 6-pack cans Target $8.99
Smell of caramel
Golden-amber color
Medium-heavy mouthfeel
Medium-high carbonation
Slight caramel taste, pine, bitterness, some citrus
Overall an ok beer. Not sure where that caramel taste is coming from. Probably won't buy again.
Aug 03, 2019Smell of caramel
Golden-amber color
Medium-heavy mouthfeel
Medium-high carbonation
Slight caramel taste, pine, bitterness, some citrus
Overall an ok beer. Not sure where that caramel taste is coming from. Probably won't buy again.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.59/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
i wanted to like this way more than i did, fresh on tap too, should have been at its best, but its a relatively lackluster ipa, if the alpha in the name is meant to suggest alpha acid bitterness, they got it right, because this one seems to be way more hop bitterness than hop flavor, a little generic in terms of taste but cranked way up on the finishing bite. the quality is there though, which i suppose is important in a beer thats not all that interesting, hard to be too negative, but it seems like these guys have a couple too many ipa types in the market right now, and that they could easily cull the weak ones and be just fine, or even better off for it. the pour is pretty, clear golden and tall white headed, a real good looking pint, bubbly and active and clean. aroma and flavor are mirrored, some light pine and citrus pith, but its uninteresting and overly familiar, not really holding my attention until the highly bitter finish just sort of demands it. its got a slight peppery thing to the hops, and really does pack a punch. it has some malt flavor and body pushing sweet,but the hops are intense enough at the end to make it almost brisk in feel, especially with the nice carbonation. if you want a somewhat one dimensional ipa thats not too heavy to drink on and is decidedly the opposite of the trendy dry hop stuff, you may dig this, but in the lineup of hop valley beers, this one is a little bit lost for me. good by all measures, but generic, simple, and more bitter than flavorful as the hops go...
May 21, 2019
Alphadelic IPA from Hop Valley Brewing Company
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
360 ratings
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