Riwaka, Baby!
Alvarado Street Brewery
- From:
- Alvarado Street Brewery
- California, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.16 | pDev: 1.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 16, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 17, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A Hazy IPA with 100% Riwaka hops from Freestyle Hops in New Zealand. Riwaka shares traits with Nelson Sauvin, featuring a complex, free-thiol driven aroma profile of over-ripe passion fruit and pithy grapefruit. This is a hop that imparts a pleasant aftertaste that is undeniably characteristic of New Zealand grown hops; pungent, fruity, petrol-like (in the best way possible!). Riwaka is notorious for its difficulty to grow & harvest, and therefore acreage remains low with each crop year presenting a gamble to farmers. We’re lucky to get our hands on these hops, and certainly enjoying what little came of the 2021 harvest!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
4.19/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.19/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Riwaka hops and skiing imagery, count me in. Alvarado comes at you from one of the more expensive locales and their beers tend to be at the high end, but man the quality can be awesome, so I took a chance on this $6 pint of beer. Now that $9 is like a standard pour price, just ooof, man, but hey, beer nerds are Bidenomics guy, well persons, so keep telling yourself new normal I guess.
Anyhoo, cloudy, hazy ipa looking pour. Not west coast. 1/4" white head. Aroma jumps on that Riwaka combination that seems like Galaxy and Nelson given all the pineapple dankness that is pouring out of it.
The taste is top tier stuff. Keeps layering those sweet fruit diesel dankness on you, but without excessive sweetness, down under hops and bitterness cut against the sweet tooth notion. Light bodied and not trubby nor watery despite the lesser hazy ipa body compared to other ipa substyles. They didn't skimp on the Riwaka hop, seems like half the time they mention that hop, they dummy it up with a bigger proportion of cheaper ones, but not here. Shred all day and laugh.
Nov 16, 2023Anyhoo, cloudy, hazy ipa looking pour. Not west coast. 1/4" white head. Aroma jumps on that Riwaka combination that seems like Galaxy and Nelson given all the pineapple dankness that is pouring out of it.
The taste is top tier stuff. Keeps layering those sweet fruit diesel dankness on you, but without excessive sweetness, down under hops and bitterness cut against the sweet tooth notion. Light bodied and not trubby nor watery despite the lesser hazy ipa body compared to other ipa substyles. They didn't skimp on the Riwaka hop, seems like half the time they mention that hop, they dummy it up with a bigger proportion of cheaper ones, but not here. Shred all day and laugh.
Reviewed by lucius10 from California
4.28/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Sweet tropical hoppy, grapefruit citrus, and a hint of hoppy-dank nose on this one! Taste follows with a tropical hoppy, and orange-juicy citrus, mildly bitter finish. This feels great for a single...soft swallow on this one. This is good and tasty...and, enjoyable to drink. I just think it needed more hoppy pop and is missing some of that New Zealand hoppy dankness on the backend.
Jan 02, 2023
Reviewed by RyanK252 from California
4.06/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Can poured into an Alvarado Street Brewery Willi Beecher glass
A: Pours hazy peachy golden amber with a frothy off white head that settles to a firm layer and leaves plenty of thick lacing.
S: Leads with a little Southern Hem diesel, followed by tropical and stone fruit mixed with citrus zest, a bit grassy, biscuity malt, and a little caramel sweetness.
T: Southern Hem diesel, zesty citrus, lime, grapefruit, and lemon, tropical and stone fruit, gooseberry, passion fruit, apricot, peach, and papaya, grassy resinous notes, biscuity malt,
M: A touch on the fuller side of medium body, moderate carbonation, soft on the palate.
O: A few of my favorite ASB beers have come from the Baby series, but I can't say this edition will be joining them at the top of my list. Not a bad beer, they pulled a lot of different things out of those hops, but that diesel-y flavor makes it come across a little rough. Hopefully they do another edition of Triplets and combine this with other recent Baby hops.
Feb 17, 2022A: Pours hazy peachy golden amber with a frothy off white head that settles to a firm layer and leaves plenty of thick lacing.
S: Leads with a little Southern Hem diesel, followed by tropical and stone fruit mixed with citrus zest, a bit grassy, biscuity malt, and a little caramel sweetness.
T: Southern Hem diesel, zesty citrus, lime, grapefruit, and lemon, tropical and stone fruit, gooseberry, passion fruit, apricot, peach, and papaya, grassy resinous notes, biscuity malt,
M: A touch on the fuller side of medium body, moderate carbonation, soft on the palate.
O: A few of my favorite ASB beers have come from the Baby series, but I can't say this edition will be joining them at the top of my list. Not a bad beer, they pulled a lot of different things out of those hops, but that diesel-y flavor makes it come across a little rough. Hopefully they do another edition of Triplets and combine this with other recent Baby hops.
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