Alpha Acid IPA
Hoyne Brewing Co.
- From:
- Hoyne Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 7.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 03, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 06, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
Introducing a new addition to the Hoyne Brewing Family, Alpha Acid IPA replaces Devil’s Dream IPA in the core lineup. Big additions of Idaho 7, El Dorado and Azacca make this hazy, tropical IPA extra juicy. Brewed with the addition of wheat in the North-Eastern style with a great balance of hops, malt and mouth feel.
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Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3.84/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Slightly hazy light tan color. Lots of small bubbles on the side of the glass. Low flow of small bubbles from the bottom. Not much head formed but it was somewhat persistent and took a couple of minutes to reduce to a a skiff. Left a little rim of fine lacing on the glass.
Slight skunky scent mixed with charcoal. A little bit of floral hops showing through. Swirling the glass amplified the skunky charcoal, and added a little bit of barnyard and some bread dough yeast scents.
This has a distinct cannabis flavor. The label says it has humalone, co-humalone, and myrcene from the hops, which explains why it tastes like the smell of many Vancouver street corners. There are also some nice malty cereal flavors showing up. The bitters show up almost as an afterthought. The aftertaste is mostly hoppy bitters. After it warms up a bit, the mid and aftertaste display some orange as well.
A bit of tongue tingling. It builds into a thick foam of fine bubbles. Medium body.
The terpenes in this are very interesting. I'm pretty sure I don't want THC in my beer, but if this flavor comes from a blend of cannabis and hops, I'm looking forward to the creations in the next few years. And for a change we have a local beer that isn't killed with barnyard.
Edit: Sometime between Aug 2 and Oct 14 they stopped using hops with myrcene and updated the label as such. I am disappointed that the experiment is over. It was quite delicious.
Aug 03, 2019Slight skunky scent mixed with charcoal. A little bit of floral hops showing through. Swirling the glass amplified the skunky charcoal, and added a little bit of barnyard and some bread dough yeast scents.
This has a distinct cannabis flavor. The label says it has humalone, co-humalone, and myrcene from the hops, which explains why it tastes like the smell of many Vancouver street corners. There are also some nice malty cereal flavors showing up. The bitters show up almost as an afterthought. The aftertaste is mostly hoppy bitters. After it warms up a bit, the mid and aftertaste display some orange as well.
A bit of tongue tingling. It builds into a thick foam of fine bubbles. Medium body.
The terpenes in this are very interesting. I'm pretty sure I don't want THC in my beer, but if this flavor comes from a blend of cannabis and hops, I'm looking forward to the creations in the next few years. And for a change we have a local beer that isn't killed with barnyard.
Edit: Sometime between Aug 2 and Oct 14 they stopped using hops with myrcene and updated the label as such. I am disappointed that the experiment is over. It was quite delicious.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a peachy amber with three fingers of foamy bubbly white head.
Smell - earthy, leafy, and piney hops, hint of pine resin, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - The hops are mild. The hint of pine resin follows next. The bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast help to finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes with the mild hops and bready malts lingering.
Overall - An average IPA. The hops need to be dialed up just a tad to make the flavours stand out a bit more. Some minor adjustments would make this more of a stand out. Nonetheless, a quaffable brew.
Aug 04, 2018Smell - earthy, leafy, and piney hops, hint of pine resin, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - The hops are mild. The hint of pine resin follows next. The bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast help to finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes with the mild hops and bready malts lingering.
Overall - An average IPA. The hops need to be dialed up just a tad to make the flavours stand out a bit more. Some minor adjustments would make this more of a stand out. Nonetheless, a quaffable brew.
Reviewed by walter231 from Canada (BC)
4.25/5 rDev +13%
look: 5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.25/5 rDev +13%
look: 5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Poured out of a bomber.
I've had a lot of IPA, and I'm frankly weary of the sugary malt and pine, cannabis, and citrus hops that dominates the style on the west coast.
This one is different. Subtle malt, excellent "just bold enough" earthy hops. It's like the southern French wine of IPAs. Flavour reminds me a bit of one of the dogfishhead beers (can't recall which) I had a few years ago in New Hampshire.
Glad somebody has finally realized that quality trumps quantity, even in the world of west coast IPAs. Excellent direction for Hoyne and I hope it sets a trend.
Probably my favourite IPA alongside a couple of stronger pine ones from Oregon.
Jul 06, 2018I've had a lot of IPA, and I'm frankly weary of the sugary malt and pine, cannabis, and citrus hops that dominates the style on the west coast.
This one is different. Subtle malt, excellent "just bold enough" earthy hops. It's like the southern French wine of IPAs. Flavour reminds me a bit of one of the dogfishhead beers (can't recall which) I had a few years ago in New Hampshire.
Glad somebody has finally realized that quality trumps quantity, even in the world of west coast IPAs. Excellent direction for Hoyne and I hope it sets a trend.
Probably my favourite IPA alongside a couple of stronger pine ones from Oregon.
Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.62/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.62/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 650ml bottle.
Well a ok IPA reading what Biboergosum and Lampertland have to say i think this IPA falls towards Bibo's.
Not a lot of flavor in this one and i had a fresh bottle.
May 12, 2018Well a ok IPA reading what Biboergosum and Lampertland have to say i think this IPA falls towards Bibo's.
Not a lot of flavor in this one and i had a fresh bottle.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.12/5 rDev -17%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
3.12/5 rDev -17%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
650ml bottle - cool label art on this one. A veritable West Coast brewery making an NEIPA, what a world, eh?
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random totem pole lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, mild scallion notes, muddled domestic citrus rind, and some weedy, earthy, and musty green hop bitters. The taste is crackery and grainy cereal malt, bland orange and white grapefruit citrus peel, an ethereal onion acerbity, some faint earthy yeastiness, wet stones, and more plain leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a touch of vegetal unpleasantness making a dent in the proceedings here. It finishes off-dry, the malt persisting amongst the weird lingering bitterness.
Overall - I'm guessing that my bottle isn't particularly old, so that can't be the excuse for this poor showing. Ain't nothin' tropical going on, just a strange blend of wan malt and pithy hops - not my cup of tea. In fact, it makes me want to go make some fresh tea, instead of killing the rest of this bomber. Meh.
May 01, 2018This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random totem pole lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, mild scallion notes, muddled domestic citrus rind, and some weedy, earthy, and musty green hop bitters. The taste is crackery and grainy cereal malt, bland orange and white grapefruit citrus peel, an ethereal onion acerbity, some faint earthy yeastiness, wet stones, and more plain leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a touch of vegetal unpleasantness making a dent in the proceedings here. It finishes off-dry, the malt persisting amongst the weird lingering bitterness.
Overall - I'm guessing that my bottle isn't particularly old, so that can't be the excuse for this poor showing. Ain't nothin' tropical going on, just a strange blend of wan malt and pithy hops - not my cup of tea. In fact, it makes me want to go make some fresh tea, instead of killing the rest of this bomber. Meh.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hoyne Brewing 'Alpha Acid IPA' @ 6.3% , served from a 650 ml bottle $6.50 & a $12 growler
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a slight hazy gold in the glass with a medium off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the Spiegelau IPA glass
S-new combination of hops , (Azacca , El Dorado & Idaho 7)
T-malty , yet decent amount of hops , dry swallow
MF-decent carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-retiring Devils Dream IPA for this new beer , bold move Sean , time will tell
prost LampertLand
Mar 06, 2018A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a slight hazy gold in the glass with a medium off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the Spiegelau IPA glass
S-new combination of hops , (Azacca , El Dorado & Idaho 7)
T-malty , yet decent amount of hops , dry swallow
MF-decent carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-retiring Devils Dream IPA for this new beer , bold move Sean , time will tell
prost LampertLand
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