Nose Cone
Alvarado Street Brewery
- From:
- Alvarado Street Brewery
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9.2%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.35 | pDev: 7.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 23, 2026
- Added:
- Feb 17, 2024
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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2025: Back again for SF Beer Week, we’ve combined forces with our friends at Ghost Town Brewing and revisited our collaboration from last year. Quick primer: our breweries start by swapping two GABF & World Beer Cup winning recipes - Alvarado’s Double Cone, and Ghost Town’s Nose Goblin. The x-factor hops for this year involved keeping Columbus Cryo and integrating 586 (Krush) Cryo into the fold. The result is Alvarado’s Nose Cone, and Ghost Town’s Cone Goblin. This batch is somehow even more profoundly dank, complex and flavor dense than the last. It’s easy to get lost in an endless supply of tropical diesel, ruby red grapefruit, lemon oil, spicy papaya and overripe stone fruit. A light, floral alcohol presence melds seamlessly with an elevated, but polished, bitterness. A beer this big should not be so effortless to enjoy. Together we did a bad, bad thing. We can’t wait to share it with you!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Oreogazmic from California
5/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Absolutely delicious, smells and looks great considering how high the alcohol % is. Love this beer. Gets you feeling real good real fast.
Apr 23, 2026
Rated by jakecattleco from California
4.32/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Resembles Nose Goblin more than Double Cone, though evens out more as it warms. Was way too easy drinking at 9.2%. Wanted more out of the nose.
Mar 08, 2026
Reviewed by RyanK252 from California
4.12/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.12/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Can poured into a Alvarado Street Brewery Willi Beecher glass
A: Pours faintly hazy golden yellow with a frothy off white head that settles to a firm layer and laces nicely.
S: Earthy, grassy, spicy, and dank herbal notes, a mix of citrus, tropical, stone fruit, and mixed berries, faint floral hints, biscuity bready malt, and a touch of caramel sweetness.
T: Ripe citrus, orange, grapefruit, and lemon, big dank earthy herbal notes, tropical and stone fruit, mango, papaya, guava, peach, pineapple, pear, melon, and mixed berries, a touch of spicy pine, a bit grassy, floral hints, biscuity bready malt, and a touch of caramel sweetness.
M: A little on the fuller side of medium body, mildly prickly moderate carbonation, drinks way lighter than its actual weight.
O: Love the concept behind this one. Unsurprisingly, when you combine 2 GABF gold medalists, the result is pretty dang good. Nicely balanced and dangerously drinkable for its size, the dank earthy notes from the Krush are the only thing holding me back from scoring it higher. Wish I was able to get my hands on last year's edition that swapped the Krush for Riwaka so I could compare the two.
May 12, 2025A: Pours faintly hazy golden yellow with a frothy off white head that settles to a firm layer and laces nicely.
S: Earthy, grassy, spicy, and dank herbal notes, a mix of citrus, tropical, stone fruit, and mixed berries, faint floral hints, biscuity bready malt, and a touch of caramel sweetness.
T: Ripe citrus, orange, grapefruit, and lemon, big dank earthy herbal notes, tropical and stone fruit, mango, papaya, guava, peach, pineapple, pear, melon, and mixed berries, a touch of spicy pine, a bit grassy, floral hints, biscuity bready malt, and a touch of caramel sweetness.
M: A little on the fuller side of medium body, mildly prickly moderate carbonation, drinks way lighter than its actual weight.
O: Love the concept behind this one. Unsurprisingly, when you combine 2 GABF gold medalists, the result is pretty dang good. Nicely balanced and dangerously drinkable for its size, the dank earthy notes from the Krush are the only thing holding me back from scoring it higher. Wish I was able to get my hands on last year's edition that swapped the Krush for Riwaka so I could compare the two.
Reviewed by BigGold from Mississippi
4.18/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Had Nose Cone poured from pint can, bottom stamped "CANNED ON 02/19/2025" and "WC IS ALIVE AND WELL," into nonic pint.
Pours light almost straw-gold with clarity and huge near-white head, and excellent retention, leaving thick, splotchy rings of lace down the glass. Mild citrus and big earthy aromas off pour, then a little biting herbal aroma, and more sweet citrus aroma, and as warms dank and bitter herbal aromas grow and predominate. On tasting, begins sweet citrus, and also sweeter stone fruit, over a just-noticeable mild malt body, which is immediately displaced by a little biting grapefruit, itself giving way as the sweet citrus and stone fruits return, with a little added hop spice, before a nicely, herbally bitter but finally (not unexpectedly) alcohol-warming finish.
This big DIPA may not be for everybody. The aroma and flavors are (to me) nicely balanced between out there citrus and stone fruits, and bitter and dank herbals, like flowers arranged with spiky and lush greenery.
May 01, 2025Pours light almost straw-gold with clarity and huge near-white head, and excellent retention, leaving thick, splotchy rings of lace down the glass. Mild citrus and big earthy aromas off pour, then a little biting herbal aroma, and more sweet citrus aroma, and as warms dank and bitter herbal aromas grow and predominate. On tasting, begins sweet citrus, and also sweeter stone fruit, over a just-noticeable mild malt body, which is immediately displaced by a little biting grapefruit, itself giving way as the sweet citrus and stone fruits return, with a little added hop spice, before a nicely, herbally bitter but finally (not unexpectedly) alcohol-warming finish.
This big DIPA may not be for everybody. The aroma and flavors are (to me) nicely balanced between out there citrus and stone fruits, and bitter and dank herbals, like flowers arranged with spiky and lush greenery.
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