Vengeful Destroyer
Alvarado Street Brewery
- From:
- Alvarado Street Brewery
- California, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.09 | pDev: 10.02%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 06, 2020
- Added:
- Aug 18, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A bolder, more aggressive variant of Vengeful Barbarian that sees four separate loads of Mosaic & Citra lupulin powder, traditional T-90 pellets, and Incognito hop extract. Bitterness is slightly elevated to achieve more hop flavor, and a touch of Idaho 7 hops have been introduced to push the aroma profile over the top. Destroyer packs a punch with pungent notes of orange oil, resin, cannabis, and ripe tropical fruit.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.39/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.39/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Canned on 8/13/20; consumed on 9/4/20
Pours an opaque, dark golden orange body topped with two fingers of fluffy, soapy, white foam; decent head retention yields a thin, lightly frothed cap and collar along with a moderate spread of chunky, webby lacing around the glass.
Aroma opens with light, overripe tropical fruits quickly ceding attention to a developing lemon meringue note further accented by weedy dankness and wet grass; shortbread malty tones are increasingly prominent over the bouquet, with hints of red currant, raspberry skins, and mushy mango adding depth to a progressive sweetness.
Taste is highly dank from the start, with sweet, flowing citrus undertones honing in on oily papaya and pineapple; a more focused weedy undertone appears past the mid-palate as a building sweet bread dominates back end; grass, resin, citrus zest, and orange sorbet linger on the finish and past the swallow.
Mouthfeel brings a body on the lighter side of medium accompanied with a moderate, prickly carbonation; a delicately acidic hoppy twang peaks over a flaky, semi-slick mid-palate into a plush, resinous back end and lighter, almost completely clean finish.
The quadruple dry-hopping clearly benefits this brew in the form of a plush, extremely easygoing texture, though it does the profile no favors in the sweetness it imparts; while the lack of balance and watered down potential puts a ceiling on how good this beer can ultimately be, despite its excesses, it remains a highly quaffable NEIPA, though could have been much more with a bit of touch/restraint.
Sep 06, 2020Pours an opaque, dark golden orange body topped with two fingers of fluffy, soapy, white foam; decent head retention yields a thin, lightly frothed cap and collar along with a moderate spread of chunky, webby lacing around the glass.
Aroma opens with light, overripe tropical fruits quickly ceding attention to a developing lemon meringue note further accented by weedy dankness and wet grass; shortbread malty tones are increasingly prominent over the bouquet, with hints of red currant, raspberry skins, and mushy mango adding depth to a progressive sweetness.
Taste is highly dank from the start, with sweet, flowing citrus undertones honing in on oily papaya and pineapple; a more focused weedy undertone appears past the mid-palate as a building sweet bread dominates back end; grass, resin, citrus zest, and orange sorbet linger on the finish and past the swallow.
Mouthfeel brings a body on the lighter side of medium accompanied with a moderate, prickly carbonation; a delicately acidic hoppy twang peaks over a flaky, semi-slick mid-palate into a plush, resinous back end and lighter, almost completely clean finish.
The quadruple dry-hopping clearly benefits this brew in the form of a plush, extremely easygoing texture, though it does the profile no favors in the sweetness it imparts; while the lack of balance and watered down potential puts a ceiling on how good this beer can ultimately be, despite its excesses, it remains a highly quaffable NEIPA, though could have been much more with a bit of touch/restraint.
Reviewed by elNopalero from Michigan
4.42/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.42/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Freshly canned, maybe two weeks prior.
Pours cloudy, with generous foaming. The aroma is all hop, dank and pithy, bold and assertive, with a good hit of sticky resin. Low bitterness, in spite of the heavy hopping, with a lot of the green notes on the palate. It’s gooood.
Sep 01, 2020Pours cloudy, with generous foaming. The aroma is all hop, dank and pithy, bold and assertive, with a good hit of sticky resin. Low bitterness, in spite of the heavy hopping, with a lot of the green notes on the palate. It’s gooood.
Rated by BayAreaJoe from California
4.21/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Maybe I need to do a side-by-side - this is good, tasty, but nowhere near Vengeful Barbarian. Not sure what the quad-hopping did.
Aug 28, 2020
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