Pleasure Wave
Alvarado Street Brewery
- From:
- Alvarado Street Brewery
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 5.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 07, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 13, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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We've loaded up Pleasure Wave with some of the finest designer hops we could get our hands on, but more specifically, hops that carry high levels of thiols. These teeny, tiny compounds make a big impact on tropical aromatics, and in this beer, it's all about pungent notes passionfruit, guava, and crushed gooseberry. This is a modern West Coast IPA, and finishes dry with just the right amount of bitterness.
Loaded up with thiol heavy hops and brewed to promote biotransformation of hop oils. Features Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic, and Riwaka hops.
Loaded up with thiol heavy hops and brewed to promote biotransformation of hop oils. Features Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic, and Riwaka hops.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.78/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Single can pickup in Truckee, Summer 2022.
Pours with good not great clarity, takes on a light unfiltered look. Yellow in color right at that 1" white head range. The aroma hits those down under hop notes: weed, diesel, gooseberry, papaya, guava, funky armpit ode to Summit hops (remember those?). They aren't here in a massive way like some Alvarado beers are. But its good even if not as plentiful as one would hope.
The taste is nice, those same hop notes and a mild grain backdrop. If you want it, you've got to believe. Its light bodied, crisp west coast ipa, it doesn't miss anything that it should be. The crispness whisks each sip of weed and papaya away into a more conventional grapefruit rind and white wine finish.
Its good, better than serviceable, but still stuck in that 2nd tier of this brewery's hoppy stuff. Man I don't even remember where I put the sticker. Cool artwork. I'll keep buying Alvarado and this beer.
Dec 15, 2022Pours with good not great clarity, takes on a light unfiltered look. Yellow in color right at that 1" white head range. The aroma hits those down under hop notes: weed, diesel, gooseberry, papaya, guava, funky armpit ode to Summit hops (remember those?). They aren't here in a massive way like some Alvarado beers are. But its good even if not as plentiful as one would hope.
The taste is nice, those same hop notes and a mild grain backdrop. If you want it, you've got to believe. Its light bodied, crisp west coast ipa, it doesn't miss anything that it should be. The crispness whisks each sip of weed and papaya away into a more conventional grapefruit rind and white wine finish.
Its good, better than serviceable, but still stuck in that 2nd tier of this brewery's hoppy stuff. Man I don't even remember where I put the sticker. Cool artwork. I'll keep buying Alvarado and this beer.
Reviewed by lucius10 from California
4.06/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Sweet tropical hoppy, white wine grape, hint of pine, and hint of citrus nose on this one! Taste follows with a slightly malty, hoppy, and grapefruit citrus bitter finish...I wish the hops popped out on the palate as they did a bit in the aromatics. Also, this looked and almost felt like an unfiltered westie...I was hoping for a crisper, cleaner finish. This is a pretty good, I just wish the hops stood out more on this westie.
Mar 28, 2022
Reviewed by RyanK252 from California
4.15/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Can poured into an Alvarado Street Brewery pint glass
A: Pours golden yellow amber with a frothy off white head that settles to a light layer and leaves some spotty lacing.
S: Strong tropical Southern Hemisphere vibes, citrus, dank herbal notes that come on stronger as it warms, a bit grassy, pine, biscuity malt, and a little caramel sweetness.
T: Big time tropical, gooseberry, passion fruit, pineapple, guava, peach, apricot, and a bit of white grape, citrus, lemon, lime, tangerine, and a touch of grapefruit, resinous pine, slightly dank herbal notes, biscuity malt, and caramel sweetness.
M: Medium body, moderate carbonation.
O: Another tasty Southern Hem gem from Alvarado Street.
Nov 20, 2020A: Pours golden yellow amber with a frothy off white head that settles to a light layer and leaves some spotty lacing.
S: Strong tropical Southern Hemisphere vibes, citrus, dank herbal notes that come on stronger as it warms, a bit grassy, pine, biscuity malt, and a little caramel sweetness.
T: Big time tropical, gooseberry, passion fruit, pineapple, guava, peach, apricot, and a bit of white grape, citrus, lemon, lime, tangerine, and a touch of grapefruit, resinous pine, slightly dank herbal notes, biscuity malt, and caramel sweetness.
M: Medium body, moderate carbonation.
O: Another tasty Southern Hem gem from Alvarado Street.
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