Yakima Valley
Arbor Ales

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From:
Arbor Ales
 
England, United Kingdom
Style:
American IPA
Ranked #739
ABV:
7%
Score:
90
Ranked #9,125
Avg:
4.1 | pDev: 5.85%
Reviews:
7
Ratings:
19
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 01, 2023
Added:
Sep 10, 2012
Wants:
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Gots:
  1
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Reviewed by gutbucket2 from England

3.68/5  rDev -10.2%
look: 1 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.25
440ml can, 7% abv, contains live yeast:
Full flavoured beer. Long mouthfeel, and lasting taste from complex hops.
Currently offered at a discount from usual price at Sainsburys UK of £4 to £3.25 if you have a nectar card.
Sep 01, 2023
 
Rated: 4 by Dethark from England

Aug 15, 2023
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

3.83/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Feb. 2018: 568 ml (1 pint) bottle, from Ales By Mail. ABV is 7%. Hazy golden colour, large white head. Pleasant aroma of fruity (citrus, tropical fruits) hops, also notes of pine and spruce. Fairly sweet flavour with some fruit, and distinct piney / resinous hops throughout. Bitter finish and aftertaste.
Jul 13, 2023
 
Rated: 4.04 by Dreyski from England

Mar 21, 2021
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Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England

4.25/5  rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Canned in a full imperial pint tallboy crafty craft can and purchased from Timperley village Bargain Booze
Aroma is a cross between battery acid lemonade and cream soda
Flavour is acid drops then a pineapple porridge mix. It’s odd & shouldn’t be right but it is, it really is!
Feb 24, 2021
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Reviewed by mizx from England

4.03/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A: Off-white cream thin head, slightly hazy golden amber, S; Grassy resinous hop, grapefruit hint/blood orange, orange pith, slight white pepper - juice concentrate? T; Strongly resinous hops/pot purri, grapefruit/blood orange, hint of peach? To style I guess but too resinous type hoppy for me. Calpol suggaryness there somewhere. Bitter/dry aftertaste. F; initially really effervescent but calmed down, still a touch gassy.

O; again maybe to style, but too much of the sort of hoppiness that's not to my taste, especially a pint can at 7%... 330 or 440 would be better. Decent but I knew i'd get the headache I have writing this now.
Dec 10, 2018
 
Rated: 4.61 by Capcragga from England

Sep 10, 2018
 
Rated: 4.05 by Giangio from Italy

Jul 31, 2017
 
Rated: 4.18 by stephenlee from England

Aug 06, 2016
 
Rated: 4.08 by Martine from England

Mar 24, 2016
 
Rated: 4.18 by DispyDnb from England

Feb 09, 2016
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Reviewed by DJ-Hophead from England

4.4/5  rDev +7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
568 ml bottle Southville Deli, Bristol - Pours amber with a large foamy creamy head. Medium carbonation. Nice heavy lacing. Smell - strong citrus fruits. Taste - sweet, grapefruit to the fore, malty with a yeasty feel finish. A belter. Hopped to blow your eyeballs out.

Up date March 2016 - Still yet to find a better APA.

Update Sept 2016 - Best before date 22/10/16 Wow this becomes even more of a hop bomb if left for a few months. Lovely huge white foamy head and enough hop character to put most DIPA's to shame. Huge wall of hops.

Update June 2018 - Had this on keg at the brewery taphouse and it was as lovely as usual. Superb IPA.
Jun 28, 2015
 
Rated: 4.09 by steverx8 from England

Feb 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by SoPeL from Poland

Aug 19, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by windypete from England

Jul 15, 2014
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Reviewed by CrazyDavros from Australia

3.9/5  rDev -4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours amber with a large, lasting head.
Nose shows floral and fruity hops in abundance. Orange blossom, lychee, pear and nectarine with some sweet clean malt underneath.
Aggressive flavours, more focussed on grapefruit and pine with a very clean malt profile. An assertive bitterness rolls through the finish.
Nice moderately high carbonation.
Jun 16, 2014
 
Rated: 4.25 by JavierGC from Spain

May 18, 2014
 
Rated: 4.25 by Kirk from England

Dec 24, 2013
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Reviewed by jazzyjeff13 from England

3.83/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A 330ml bottle with a BB of Dec 2012. Picked up a little while ago from Trembling Madness in York. The label mentions that this was brewed using a range of hop varieties from the Yakima Valley in Washington; apparently 'bucketloads' were added. Sounds promising!

Poured into a Delirium chalice. Bottle conditioned. A hazy, translucent golden-amber hue with plentiful carbonation. Produces an immense head of creamy white foam with excellent stability - it resembles a meringue. This slowly subsides to a thick surface layer, leaving frothy lacing in it's wake. Aroma of intensely fruity hops with notes of lemon, melon, white grapes, grapefruit, tropical fruits and citrus. Undertones of subtle caramel malt with a seam of earthy yeast running through it. A whiff of warming, solventy booze in the background.

Tastes of fruity aromatic hops with a spicy bitter finish. Notes of lemon, white grapes, melon, grapefruit, citrus and mild tropical fruits. Has a slightly 'plant-like' quality. Faint malt in the background, accompanied by hints of earthy yeast esters. A dry and comparitively restrained bitterness upon swallowing. Mouthfeel is thick and smooth with nice body and a spicy, tingly character. Could feel a tad more carbonated. Slightly astringent, with an aftertaste of fruity, spicy aromatic hops and yeast.

Wow - tons of aromatic hop flavour in this brew. Very nice; it looks almost perfect and smells delicious. The flavour is biased towards fruity aroma, with less emphasis on bitterness. Couldn't help but feel that a cleaner, more strident bitter finish would have improved it. The mouthfeel also felt a little flat, despite high carbonation visible in the body of the beer. Nonetheless, an impressive and tasty effort - well worth sampling if you have the chance.
Sep 10, 2012
Yakima Valley from Arbor Ales
Beer rating: 90 out of 100 with 19 ratings