First Alpha
Woodstock Brewing
- From:
- Woodstock Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 3.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 09, 2022
- Added:
- Jul 11, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Shiredave from New York
3.24/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.24/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
More interesting can modern art. Unreadable canning date on bottom.
The beer is a murky, grey-yellow supporting a low head and minimal lace smears.
Aroma is one note - grapefruit. Some mild malt and honey notes waft in but only in the background.
Flavor is as advertised to the nose. This is nearly sour and puckery with grapefruit tartness. Some malt sweetness struggles through the hop Alpha acids but mostly in heft and mouth feel. You can sense the malt on the tongue but taste buds are overwhelmed with harsh, bitter and sour citrus. As it warms it just gets worse.
The finish is abrupt and harsh leaving a nasty boiled grapefruit aftertaste.
You know it's pretty easy to throw tons of hop pellets of the LOUD variety into a brew kettle for the last 25 minutes of the boil and say " Mine is juciest!!" Just like it used to be easy on the left coast to add tons of hops at the start of the boil and say "Mine is bitterest!!" But apparently it isn't at all easy to get the balance and yeast attenuation right.
Jul 22, 2020The beer is a murky, grey-yellow supporting a low head and minimal lace smears.
Aroma is one note - grapefruit. Some mild malt and honey notes waft in but only in the background.
Flavor is as advertised to the nose. This is nearly sour and puckery with grapefruit tartness. Some malt sweetness struggles through the hop Alpha acids but mostly in heft and mouth feel. You can sense the malt on the tongue but taste buds are overwhelmed with harsh, bitter and sour citrus. As it warms it just gets worse.
The finish is abrupt and harsh leaving a nasty boiled grapefruit aftertaste.
You know it's pretty easy to throw tons of hop pellets of the LOUD variety into a brew kettle for the last 25 minutes of the boil and say " Mine is juciest!!" Just like it used to be easy on the left coast to add tons of hops at the start of the boil and say "Mine is bitterest!!" But apparently it isn't at all easy to get the balance and yeast attenuation right.
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