Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bomber pours deep copper with gold edges and light tan head. The aroma is modest in strength and offers up roasted malts and a bit of sweet nuttiness. The taste follows suit with a good load of malt sweetness and malt nuttiness as well as a thin layer of roasted malts. Well off in the background I get murmurs of earthiness and spicy hops too. The beer seems to be at odds with itself. Kind of muddled.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A dark brown porter with a thin brown head. In aroma, a chalky chocolate with muskey coffee notes, light off notes. In mouth, a smooth lightly sweet chocolate, light pumpkin pulp, a bit musty, medium bodied. On tap at Oregon Brewer’s Fest, July 31 2011.
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.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Black 9 from Beer Valley Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled on tap for IIPA fest @ Saraveza, pours dark brown with a reddish hue and a beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, citrus hops and some metallic notes. Flavour beings roasty like a porter, finishing with citrus hops. Very well-made, though standard, black IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
My first beer from this company. Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black/brown color with a small beige head that lingered and left some lacing. The aroma was dryish and toasty with notes of cocoa and wood. The flavor was dryish, roasty, woody and very roasty with fairly strong cocoa followed by more bitter roasty, a touch of sherry and a wallop of sharp floral hops and windex. The finish was long, dry, roasty and woody. Medium body. Disappointing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
bottle pours light orange with a medium frothy white head. Aroma is big with citrus and grassy hops. Flavor is nice and rich with big sweet toast and pale grains ending with strong medicinal hop notes of orange rind and herbal evergreen notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 oz bottle purchased at Bottleworks in Seattle, Washington. The pour is a hazed orange brown copper with a slightly off white one inch head. Falls with a bit of lacing. Aroma is soft nutty maltiness, along with a pleasant light caramel sweetness. Also a touch of cardboard behind that. The taste is the sweet caramel nut up front - followed close behind with plum sweetness. Nice clean flavors. The palate is light bodied, nice unfiltered mouth feel, a touch watery in the finish. Aftertaste is lightly sweet, but clean. Nice refreshing beer for the patio.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours muddy apricot. White head. Nose and taste of caramel, toffee, bready malts, dark fruit and brown sugar. The fruit in the taste is a bit more citrus like than dark and there is a slight hop presence. Mouth feel is very bready and grainy. Alcohol is well hidden - soaked up in the bread.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle in Philadelphia. Pours brownish black. Thin, quickly dissipating off white head. Strong bourbon aroma with oak, vanilla, roast coffee and roasted chocolate malts. Taste is good, but pretty standard and a letdown after the terrific nose. Medium body.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Rosebud IPA from Beer Valley Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bomber from Taylor’s Market in Sacramento, CA. Pours hazy copper with a creamy/bubbly off-white head. Aroma of roasted malt. Not getting hop. Flavor starts with roast caramel, then some piney earthy hop comes along. Disappointing, given their earlier efforts. The aroma and the flavor are just a tad papery, over toasted. Finishes with an irritating sweet aspect. I know there’s hop in here, but it just doesn’t work for me. Having just had a super IPA, this one may be suffering by comparison. So sad. Too bad.