Delta 9
Beer Valley Brewing Company in Ontario, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.96
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bhensonb (22605) reviewed Delta 9 from Beer Valley Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
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.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Delta 9 from Beer Valley Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours with a mildly hazed (but noticeably bottle conditioned) golden body with a very large, just barely off-white head. Aromas are of pine, citrus and caramel. Old school. Soapy. That said, there is a noticeable nutty, malt character. Some soil and marmalade. Dry biscuits. Flavors are malt forward. Bready, nutty, biscuity, sunflower seeds. Very bitter. Citrus and pine. Tastes like an IPA that would have been made 10 years ago. Strong bitterness, mildly floral and citrusy hops (little in the flavor compared to other hop attributes). Seems all C-hop (I do wonder if the name hints to Delta hops, but if so I can’t taste them). Nutty, ice tea. Good, but not very good or different. A bit of a co-humulone bite. Some ester that borders on a mild ethyl acetate. Medium bubbles, medium to fuller body for the style. Kind of bummed by the out come here. I do like Beer Valley, and they can make some very solid hoppy beers. This just seems like an IPA brewed by going through the motions. Perhaps harsh, but...
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Delta 9 from Beer Valley Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the San Diego Toronado. It pours hazy deep gold with copper core and off white head. The aroma has firm levels of spicy hops, dark green lime like citrus hops and a mild amount of sweet maltiness in the background. The taste starts with robust bitter spicy hops and then some citrus notes followed by mild notes of sweet malts, a touch of caramel malts and a sense of butterscotch. It ends bone dry with healthy levels of hop resin pucker-ness.