Alpha Centauri
Hop Valley Brewing Company

BOD 9-10-2019 have had in the cellar a while. This beer pours a golden/orange color with a small off-white foamy head. Aroma is citrus, pine and malt as is the taste with a slight taste of an older pine flavor, aging hops, but still decent and drinkable. May have given higher score if it weren't so old.

 

A 9% hop monster. Alcohol seems subdued in hops done pretty well. Something is a-mis on hop flavor. Im getting a moldy bathroom odor mouthfeel on taste thru the swallow. Maybe not what they wanted to happen when dry hopping as much as possible.
Part of a multi pak I wouldn’t purchase again. Cans 12oz
I have no idea how ratings gone this high maybe it’s a competition to see how much hopping can be done before someone says stop that’s perfect. Multi packs have been a model to sell beers that normally don’t sell.

 

Pours a light orange with delicate, sporadic lacing. Smell is caramel, yeasty, boozy. Taste is pine forward with lots of orange and caramel notes. Its a little lighter on the palate than I would expect. I found it overall drinkable, but much lighter in the loafers than I would expect from an inperial IPA.

Look: Hazy orange-yellow. High head, beautiful lacing.
Smell: A strong and powerful aroma of citrus dominates.
Taste: A perfectly balanced beer for being 100 IBUs. A strong citrus flavor hits you up front but is followed up by an excellent long lasting pine taste.
Feel: Medium in the mouth.
Overall: This is truly an outstanding brew that holds up very well. I would definitely recommend this beer.

12 oz can enjoy by May/19/24 into a tulip glass.
L: SRM 5 Pours a slightly murky apricot color with a 1" off white plush head, good steady fine carbonation, medium-thick antique lacing.
S: Caramelized malts, orange sugar candy, fruit salad, light alcohol with warming.
T: Lightly tart tangerine, citrus zest, sweet caramelized malts, a touch of honey, pear, ginger, pine resin, a hint of dry yellow fruit bread, very lightly metallic. It has a very long lingering pine finish and is a little bit sweet overall.
F: Very lightly brisk then lightly juicy & smooth with a long and drawn-out tongue drying finish. Becomes more smooth with warming.
O: A big tasting beer. Big feel and a big long resinous finish. It speaks loudly with 100 IBUs and has lovely full tastes. Fairly sweet & fruity. It is pleasant drinking and is outstanding in its style.

 

An imperial IPA that drinks like a single, to it's benefit. Sadly the focus is on bitterness and booziness. The flavor is a not a shadow of some of the better IIPAs out there

Poured from a can into a pint glass. Pours orange yellow with a nice white head. Smells of citrus and grassy hops. Tastes of citrus and grassy hops. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, a very good beer.

Appearance: Hazy gold, good head.

Smell: Oxidized citrus.

Taste: Pretty sweet, citrus throughout. Mild bitterness. Doesn't taste old, despite being pretty old.

Overall: Pretty old, but no date on the carton. Didn't taste old despite the oxidized notes in the smell. Decent DIPA.

 

 

 

Poured from a can. Consumed on 6-3-2023, BB date Sept 2023.

This is a very clear pouring beer. Golden in color. There's some carbonation bubbles rising in the glass. The head was 3 finger, at it's greatest. It eventually was 2 finger when I got the whole beer into the glass. The head was white in color. Retention was decent. Some great lacing on the glass.
Aroma is from the hops, as expected. There's a good pine bill in the aroma, as well as some citrus. Both aromas are pleasing to a hop head.
Taste - This beer is a hoppy beer, and it makes sure you know it. The hops start out mellow, but this doesn't last long at all. The hops seem to start out tropical, but this changes quickly over to pine hop flavor, and it builds. The bitterness builds and lingers in my throat.
This beer really doesn't drink like a 9% beer. While full bodies, it's so smooth. Yeah the bitterness does slow me down slightly, but, I just can't get enough of it, and it's going down way too fast for a 9% beer.
I miss the days of a super bitter IPA. This brings me back to the good old days. I am happy, and impressed.

Good beer from a can but feel a bit to bitter for my pallet. The aroma is really nice!

Orange manadrins tangerine all tropical citrus smells with a sweet syrupy body and one of the most grapefruit bitterness ipas out there. Super bitter just what I look for. It reminds me of ruination but might even be more bitter! Top 5 ipas for me

 

 

Pours out of the can a darker orange with about an inch of head poured initially rough. Decent retention, with lazy bubbles up the side of the glass. Pretty good lacing as well.
Smells strongly of pine and grapefruit rind. Tastes very much like pine bitterness as the main event, but drifts into the grapefruit flavor after that wears off. Pretty normal for a DIPA to have such a strong hop forward profile, it gets the job done