Beer Valley Delta 9 IPA

Brewed by Beer Valley Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Ontario, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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650 ml bottle. Rated on 22.6.2012.
Pours a hazy, murky orange colour with a white firm head. Aroma of piney hops, floral notes and lovely exotic fruitiness. Flavour, however, is a bit messy. Strong floral hops, grapefruit, stuffy malts, yeast, some astrigent and very dry wood. Medium bodied, rough mouthfeel and a rough, dry, bitter finish with very low fruitiness. Tastes raw and yeasty. Not refreshing at all.

65 cl bottle.
Pours slightly hazy amber color with small head. Lots of sediment in the bottle. Aroma is a bit odd, some ripe peach, apricot, floral notes, grass and some hints of glueish alcohol. Flavor of hoppy fruits, resin, grass, some sweetish caramel and some orange peel. A bit disturbing "oily" notes on the hops on aroma and the taste is also a bit of a let-down.
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65 cl bottle @ home, no BBE info
Aroma is a bit unusual for IPA with ripe fruits, peaches, biscuits, bready malt and just some hoppy notes. Also hints of resin. Flavour has some hops, biscuits, fruits, glue and resin. The hop profile is unusual, it just stays in the front but does not penetrate much through to the finish or aftertaste. Quite flat for an IPA.

Trockener, etwas laffer Hopfenbeginn. Zitrusnoten, Reis. Sehr trockene Holznoten sind permanent vorhanden, eine angenehme Hopfigkeit kann kaum durchdringen. Mild bitterer Ausklang, erst im Nachgeschmack stärker bitter mit angenehm grasigen Noten. OK. 10/8/9/9/9/9

On tap at the West Coast Brewfest. Pours cloudy golden with a rich off-white head and a citrus aroma. There is a hearty caramel malt flavor with serious hop bitterness and a puckering finish.

9th May 2012
Bottle from Olbutikken. Slight haze on this amber beer. Good white head. Creamy pale malt, a little raw grain. Hops are piney with mild orange marmalade. Finishes soft and dry with a mildly bitter aftertaste, Alright but a little too malt led for me.

Bottle. Golden, hazy, average to large and mostly lasting head. Moderate, malty - lightly grainy and caramel sweetish aroma, light tropical fruitiness, piney and some grapefruit hoppyness. Body is medium, sweetish and malty - lightly grainy and sweetish flavor, some caramel, light fruitiness and some piney and grapefruit hoppyness. Finish is average, sweetish with caramel, some piney - grapefruit hoppyness. Caramel sweetish IPA. OK but nothing really special - could use more hoppyness (and less caramel).

(22oz bottle) Pours a clear golden body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of grain, grass, florals, nuts, toffee, and citrus. Flavor of pine, grain, toffee, and grass with a dry, bitter finish.

Bottle. Pours a golden color with a longlasting off-white head. has a fruity fresh hoppy grapefruit aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter grassy grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.

Bottle @ C4 Pale Ale Festival, Odense 2012. Pours cloudy golden with a small creamy head and lacings. Nose is orange and grapefruity hops. Flavor has a bit of yeast as well. Grassy bitter finish. Full bodied. Good.