Bottle. Pours clear amber gold with white head. Nose and taste of caramel malt, pineapple husk, wet grass and dry resin. Finishes very dry abrasive resin. Lighter body.

22oz bomber pours clear deep copper with firm tan head. The aroma offers up lots of sweet malts and some sweet cherry hard candy and then a touch of sweet toffee like notes. Wow, the flavor does have some nice sort of vague hoppiness but this is overshadowed by sweet cherry like fruity esters, toffee and malts.

Bomber. Pours slightly hazy dark orange with a large cream-colored lacy head. Aroma is a little odd--it smells a bit like popcorn drizzled with caramel with some vegetal offnotes. For such a supposedly hoppy beer, it smells very malt-driven. There are some faint citrusy hop notes in the background but that caramel really drowns everything else out. The taste is bittersweet with an emphasis on bitter. Has a full body and a prickly mouthfeel. I was hoping for a resinous dank hop-bomb, but this is definitely something different. Although not bad, it’s pretty weird.

22oz bottle picked up at The Grapevine
Appearance: Pours clear golden with a medium sized creamy off-white head and sticky lacing
Aroma: Mild aroma of grapefruit and pine
Taste: Caramel, tropical fruits and finishes with bitter pine resin
An enjoyable IPA. Mild upfront in aroma and when it hits the tongue, with a bitter pine finish. Nice.

Bomber from Beverages 4 Less in Santee, CA. Pours copper amber wth a foamy/creamy 4 finger beige head. Mixed fruit hop aromas over a caramel backbone. Med + body. Flavor is sort of mildly cooked caramel covered by a huge amount of hop. No harsh NW thing here. It’s mixed fruits and florals, with maybe a bit of pine. A fruity ale rather than a resin ale. Quite delicious.

A dark amber ale with a thin off white head, lacing. In aroma, a strage sweet hopped caramel, tropical, carmelized fruits, quite nice and intriguing. In mouth, a tart hoppy alwe with mineral notes, lingering harshness, unbalanced. On tap at Oregon’s Brewers Fest, July 29 2011.