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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Bottle from Coppers in Newcastle. Cloudy orange amber coloured with bitter orange marmalade and tropical fruit flavours and a sweet red fruity and grapefruit finish. Excellent!

(Bottle 23/01-2013) Low white head, slightly unclear orange color, fresh hoppy aroma, full body, full hoppy taste, soft co2, good bitterness, dry hop aftertaste, very good IPA.

Sampled at the AZ Strong Beer Fest. Dark tangerine pour with a small beige head. Pretty bright hop presence in this one with loads of orange peel and minimal pine. Caramel malt backbone doesn’t distract from the citrus. Also has a hint of marijuana. Pretty decent stuff.

Nice slightly hazy copper coloured body with a large, soapy off-white head that sticks up nicely, around three centimetres. Aroma of fresh herbal and slightly earthy hops with a touch of pine in the mix and a solid base of malt. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong, grassy, herbal and piney hops at the front end with a good malt balance and a slight bitter and metallic note near the end. Aftertaste is nice with a lot of hops, some pine, a bit of grapefruit all meshed around the light alcohol flavour and a stronger malt backbone. Overall, a rather nice IPA - showing a ton of hop characteristics, a lot of bitterness all with a solid backbone of malt. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Super Jr Market (BestDamnBeer Store) in San Diego, California on 06-May-2012 for US$5.99 sampled at home in Washington on 07-July-2012.

Bottle from Beers of Europe, King’s Lynn
Hazy amber color with generous head. The aroma has both a very nice hop (fruits and resins), and dust. Dry toffee flavor, followed by an extreme resiny hopping, leading to an equally powerful and long final.
This is one of the few American beer with quite some sediment, but controlled.
Straight bold IPA, but without the freshness that it should have.

Bottle 6.6% @ FOneFan, Pre-Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2012. Hazy amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hops and peach. Flavour is malt, hops, fruit, peach, grapefruit, little sweet and medium bitter.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are rich bitter hops, flowers, straw, malt and grass. Ling bitter finish.

Tap @ Pizzalchik: Clear copper color with a small off-white head and semi-sticky lacing. Aroma of fresh hops with a little pepper thrown in as well as the expected Northwest hints of pine and sagebrush. The flavors are robust, full of bitterness as well as a little tang. The body is thin with a prolonged bitter aftertaste. It was a pleasant experience.

Bomber from Whole Foods in Folsom, CA. Pours hazy light amber with a creamy beige head. Aroma is citrus. Med body or better. Flavor is citrus - but not grapefruit. There’s a malt backbone that is pleasantly overborn by hop. So should we appreciate a beer that just obliterates malt with hop? Heck yes we should!!!!!!!&# Nice dry, bitter finish. Yum.

Tap @ Brewforia: Pours a cloudy orange color with a nice big white head. The nose is fresh with lots of grapefruit and pineapple notes, light malt with a touch of toast. The flavor is super tasty with a balanced crispy hoppy mouthfeel, more zesty than sticky with a nice citrusy finish. Tasty! I would like to see more of this.