F40
Alvarado Street Brewery
- From:
- Alvarado Street Brewery
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.1%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 4.4 | pDev: 5.91%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 03, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 14, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Dry hopped at a rate in excess of 8 lbs per barrel with exceptional lots of Mosaic & Idaho 7, with plenty of body to sustain such a gargantuan hop character.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by RyanK252 from California
4.02/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Can poured into an Alvarado Street Brewery beer glass
A: Pours hazy golden orange amber with a frothy pale tan head that hangs around before slowly settling to a firm layer and leaves some thick lacing.
S: Tropical and orchard fruit, zesty citrus, and resinous pine all duking it out for the lead, still has a noticeably green side, spicy dank herbal notes, grassy, biscuity bready malt, and caramel sweetness.
T: Citrus, tangerine, lime, and lemon, big tropical and orchard fruit, papaya, pear, apricot, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, and a hint of melon, resinous pine, spicy, earthy, kinda minty herbal notes, biscuity bready malt, and caramel sweetness.
M: On the fuller side of medium body, moderate carbonation, soft on the palate, but it definitely has a little hop burn that becomes more obvious as it warms.
O: Took this one a little time to open up. Tastes like a fruit stand/dispensary in the forest. There's a kinda sharp bitterness and a little hop burn that is keeping me from rating it higher. Some people might be more into that.
Mar 10, 2020A: Pours hazy golden orange amber with a frothy pale tan head that hangs around before slowly settling to a firm layer and leaves some thick lacing.
S: Tropical and orchard fruit, zesty citrus, and resinous pine all duking it out for the lead, still has a noticeably green side, spicy dank herbal notes, grassy, biscuity bready malt, and caramel sweetness.
T: Citrus, tangerine, lime, and lemon, big tropical and orchard fruit, papaya, pear, apricot, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, and a hint of melon, resinous pine, spicy, earthy, kinda minty herbal notes, biscuity bready malt, and caramel sweetness.
M: On the fuller side of medium body, moderate carbonation, soft on the palate, but it definitely has a little hop burn that becomes more obvious as it warms.
O: Took this one a little time to open up. Tastes like a fruit stand/dispensary in the forest. There's a kinda sharp bitterness and a little hop burn that is keeping me from rating it higher. Some people might be more into that.
Reviewed by mogulskier from California
4.6/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
After having Cutlass Supreme, I was loathe to try this one, but it was selling so quick, I had to make a decision right then and there.
OK, glad I did. A great turnaround. This beer is delicious, seriously outstanding.
Looks like pulp orange juice and great lacing on it.
Smell is dank and stone fruits. Again, like pulp orange juice. So good.
Taste is just outstanding. Orange, Stone Fruits, Dankness. Everything I love. But without the alcohol burn on the finish that some ASB DIPA's have. Non-existent on this brew even on this ABV level.
Great mouthfeel too. Like a glass of OJ.
Highly recommended.
Jan 25, 2020OK, glad I did. A great turnaround. This beer is delicious, seriously outstanding.
Looks like pulp orange juice and great lacing on it.
Smell is dank and stone fruits. Again, like pulp orange juice. So good.
Taste is just outstanding. Orange, Stone Fruits, Dankness. Everything I love. But without the alcohol burn on the finish that some ASB DIPA's have. Non-existent on this brew even on this ABV level.
Great mouthfeel too. Like a glass of OJ.
Highly recommended.
Reviewed by BayAreaJoe from California
4.58/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.58/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Canned 1/9/20, consumed 1/19/20
Pours super murky yellow orange with a big, thick head that had great retention and left tons of thick lacing. Looks like juice.
Bright, fruit hoppy aroma REALLY pops on this one - each whiff is just loaded dank full of a tropical, orchard, and stonefruit bouquet. Outstanding.
Taste doesn't have that extreme hop pop from the aroma but is still some top level fruit punch.
Feel is med/full in body, silky smooth with med/low carbonation and very low bitterness.
Overall, this one shines just a bit more for ASB, but really they've been pretty dialed in these days.
Jan 20, 2020Pours super murky yellow orange with a big, thick head that had great retention and left tons of thick lacing. Looks like juice.
Bright, fruit hoppy aroma REALLY pops on this one - each whiff is just loaded dank full of a tropical, orchard, and stonefruit bouquet. Outstanding.
Taste doesn't have that extreme hop pop from the aroma but is still some top level fruit punch.
Feel is med/full in body, silky smooth with med/low carbonation and very low bitterness.
Overall, this one shines just a bit more for ASB, but really they've been pretty dialed in these days.
Reviewed by Whatislightbeer
4.77/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.77/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Cannned 1/9/20 - poured into a teku glass.
L: pours a murky yellow which is more bright than dull. A nice tall frothy head with excellent retention. Great lacing trickling down the glass. High expectations since it is named after the F40.
S: peaches, mangos and sweet dankness (almost like dank apples) really shine through. Definitely some citrus and overall stone fruit, the nose is killing it, super big. I haven't smelled something this potent in awhile.
T: taste is a match to the nose and highlights the standout smells. I really feel like a dank apple here. Sweet, tangy, and especially strong on the dankness but balanced overall. I feel like I'm drinking an F40.
F: definitely has a medium body feel with above average carbonation and a very, albeit good, dry finish.
O: luxury, precision, power, this is the right beer for it's namesake. This is my second favorite in the car series from ASB. Simply phenomenal.
Jan 19, 2020L: pours a murky yellow which is more bright than dull. A nice tall frothy head with excellent retention. Great lacing trickling down the glass. High expectations since it is named after the F40.
S: peaches, mangos and sweet dankness (almost like dank apples) really shine through. Definitely some citrus and overall stone fruit, the nose is killing it, super big. I haven't smelled something this potent in awhile.
T: taste is a match to the nose and highlights the standout smells. I really feel like a dank apple here. Sweet, tangy, and especially strong on the dankness but balanced overall. I feel like I'm drinking an F40.
F: definitely has a medium body feel with above average carbonation and a very, albeit good, dry finish.
O: luxury, precision, power, this is the right beer for it's namesake. This is my second favorite in the car series from ASB. Simply phenomenal.
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