Valley Brew Decadent Evil

Brewed by Valley Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Stockton, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bomber from 2010 - thanks, family! Had high hopes for this one, but the best I can say is that I let it age too long. Clearish apple juice pour, minimal bubbles and a watery consistency. Strong sweet malts and spicy yeast in the nose. Taste was considerably more fruity than expected (apple juice for sure here), and with the washed-out quality it came across as a merely decent BSA.

Bottle shared by Lunch. Thanks Paul! The beer is golden hued with a small white head that leaves faint traces of lacing on the glass. The aroma brings herbal and floral notes, with additional scents of alcohol and a subtle yeast character. This beer is overly sweet, with alcohol too prominent. The body is thin, and overall, this was pretty tough to drink. It wasn’t horrible, but I didn’t particularly enjoy it either. Nothing about this brew really embraced the Belgian style to me. Yeast character was subdued, and the alcoholic sweetness was just overpowering. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 06-30-2011

5th July 2010
Hazy gold beer. No head. Smooth palate but with a carbonated bite in the tail. Honey like light malt with a trace of orange fruits. Pinch of pepper. Finishes silky smooth. Nice easy drinking Belgian.

Bottled. A dark golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of caramel and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, hops, and fruits mainly grapefruits, leading to a lightly bitter finish.

Bottle courtesy of Lunch. Served in a SAVOR snifter. Pours a clear golden yellow color with a small white head that doesn’t really leave any lace or anything like that behind. The nose brings some light bready character along with some really faint yeast character -- there’s a very light bit of earthiness and some pepper, but those were very difficult to pick out. The flavor was the same way. I got a bit of bread and grain, but no real yeast character. Some continental hops. Light body and fairly crisp. Dry finish. Nothing really Belgian about this beer. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 06-13-2011

Bottle. [can’t remember who traded me this... sorry]
Pours clear golden with a small, creamy, white film head. Aroma has flowers, light oxidation, banana, green apples, light vinious. Medium, prickly carbonation, fine creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is a bit sharp vinious, banana esters, green apple, a bit og gingery pepper. The alcohol might be a bit to present, otherwise an okay Belgian blonde.

Cloudy pale hazy pour. Thick white head. The nose is a little bit bretty almost. Softly fruity with a kiss of pine as well. There is an unusual sort of tartness on the back - odd in a beer this size, but it kind of works. Softly berryish with a touch of malty sweetness. Berries, sweet malt and a little bit of unusual dustiness. It’s pretty tasty, really.

22oz bottle from K&L. Pours a cloudy deep golden color with a one-finger white head. The aroma is very sweet with pale malt and honey as well as a light fruit presence. The flavor has very sweet honeyish pale malt, peach, citrus, and spice. Fairly syrupy on the palate with medium carbonation. Pretty nice beer but not terribly well-balanced and cohesive.

Crisp clear orange-hued golden coloured body with a bright glow and an odd oily-sediment topped (instead of any head at all) beer. Aroma of granny smith apples, candy sugar, yeast, coriander seed and a touch of apricots and oak. Full-bodied; Strong full flavoured beer with honeysuckle, apricots, peaches, yeast, oak, vanilla and a lot of sugar at the tail end. Aftertaste shows a touch of sweetness, a little drying flavour and a whole lot of sugar and fruits near the end. Overall, a good belgie, perhaps a bit too reliant on fruit and sugars without much other complexities. Nice to sample, but not one of my favourite belgian aless, but definitely not a bad attempt. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from City Beer in San Francisco, California on 29-June-2010 for US$7, sampled at home in Washington on 19-September-2010.

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #30. ]

Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, fruity, honey. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, honey, flowers. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100821]