There isn’t a beer that I loved more than Alpine’s Nelson. When I lived in San Diego, I made the trek out to Alpine a few times and would belly up to the bar and try everything on the menu. One day the manager turned to me and said that his favorite beer was actually a blend of two of their beers: Hoppy Birthday and Bad Boy. He called it “Bad Birthday.”
When Alpine sold to Green Flash, I was ecstatic to be able to buy bottles of it during nights at Lynnhaven Pub down in Virginia Beach, the memory of Bad Birthday still persisting after all those years. I even got to visit McIlhenney a few years ago to try their new iterations on their old system.
I wrote my recipe for my take on Alpine Nelson 6 years ago and it has sat on the back burner until this year where it’s now become reality. This beer turned out better than I could have imagined it ever would have and I am ISO Muntz to see how close we actually came.
We explained the origin of this beer in our previous post but for our take on this beer we used a new experimental hop “2B” from @hopguild and NZ-grown Motuere on the hot side to give a backbone of authenticity to the OG considering Motuere’s bred from Southern Cross. Dry-hopped with our selected lot of early harvest Nelson from @freestylehops and a hint of more Motuere, this beer is a NZ explosion in the aromatics. The 20% rye malt in the grain bill gives off the perfect amount of tannins and spice to compliment the fruit salad of hops and we used our west coast water profile and yeast to dry the beer out just enough to balance the juicy hops, much like what we remember from the OG.
Despite its hazy appearance this beer is west coast juice to its core similar, once again, to the beer we based this off of.
We are not limiting can sales at this time, but if the responses to the samples we poured in the tasting room this weekend are any indication, we will limit as supplies dwindle to extend the beers availability in our tasting room.
品目:ビール
容量/本数:473ml缶/1本
アルコール分:7.0%
原材料名:麦芽、ホップ、オーツ
製造元:Marlowe Artisanal Ales | Mamaroneck, New York, US
製造元URL:https://www.marloweales.com/
スタイル:ニュージーランド・ライIPA
賞味期限:2026年2月10日
GTIN:671891309246