Brew Uberhoppy Imperial IPA
Valley Brewing Company in Stockton, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.77
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Wavers1. Dark brown pour with white head. Nose and taste of caramel malts, pine and hops. The caramel malt is starting to get a bit strong, but still quite hoppy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
copper/orange, tan head. yeasty nose, dark caramel malts, dark fruits, citrus / grapefruit and floral hops.. Palate keeps a nice roasted, light caramel presence with a prefect bitter hoppy finish that ends with a warming abv. resinous palate with tangy lingering citrus/floral hops.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
bottle thanks to wavers1, Baker you rock! Pours dark hazy carmel with a medium off white head that held all the way down leaving a nice lacing. Aroma is nutty with almond and peanut notes then a nice pine hop comes forward with some floral notes. Flavor is so good. Rich malt profile of biscuit, a very bready almost rye toasted malt, and again nuts. The grainyness is cut by a strong hop bitterness. Lots of evergreen and pine notes, maybe even a little spruce, just tastes green haha. Ends extremely dry, I feel my tongue loose all moisture. This is special stuff. Thanks again Baker for the opportunity to try this fresh!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from TheCheeseMan, thanks! Bottle. Amber color. Oily piney aroma with melon and grapefruit. Oily piney very hopbitter flavor with lemon and grassy notes. Earthy oily piney hopbitter finish. Hint of toffee. Some warming alcohol. Drinkable in spite of the extreme hopbitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Location: 22 oz bottle via trade with NickD717, 9/24/09
Aroma: This brew has a really nice hop aroma, citrus and resin mostly, with some earth and pine, and a bit of caramel as well.
Appearance: Pours a slightly hazy orange-brown color with a thin, but lasting head, and some light lace.
Flavor: A really nice hop flavor, bitter and tasty, a little more resiny and less citrus then the nose, a nice malt backbone is there too for some balance, quite tasty.
Palate: This beer is nice though the entire palate, smooth, creamy, and dry, with a full body, along duration, and almost no alcohol burn.
Overall Impression: This is some good stuff. Another good one thanks to Nick, Cali is certainly a state that has many a good beer. This is the first thing I have gotten to try from Valley Brewing, so lets just say they are 1 for 1 for sure. Another really quality IIPA from CA, oh, and I guess this is # 900 for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home with Fin ... Thanks to Agent Steve for this one ... Deep amber ... pig pine sweet hoppy nose ... big resiny mouthfeel ... quite bitter ... quite a lot of pine ...
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.[ Trade by Papsoe ]. Unclear hazy medium orange color with a small, virtually none appearance, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, heavy hoppy, resin, orange, wood pine. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration and a peppery - alcoholic very dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily - sticky, carbonation is flat. (300808)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
special 12 oz bottle provided by Davecooks, muchos gracias. What surpirses me about this is how malty of a DIPA it was without heading into the barleywine zone. Its definitely hoppy but I wont say more so than a few standard DIPAs, but there is a real light bread maltiness to it, which probably offsets the hops a lot. I wonder how something like this would age even though it is not created to be aged, as I figure. Also, a very heavy bodied beer, not so used to that either, a nice change of pace. I would say this is the most balanced DIPA I have had.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottled (thanks omhper). Dark copper coloured, small off white head. Aroma of beautifully balanced hops. Flavour of a lot of hops and fruits. Mago and nectarine all the way through. A bit harsh grassiness starts to show, so Per was most likely right about that this may be on it’s way going bad... Except for the harsh grassyness underneath, very lovely!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Bottled. Clear brownish amber. Fresh juicy lychheelike hop aroma. Medium dry with soft rounded mouthfeel. Beautiful, solid malt character underneath a wellpointe lacquer of hops. Extremely hop aromatic, but the 150 IBU doesn’t hurt that much at all, instead the bitterness is just pleasant. Extremely drinkable for it’s size.