Ventura Highway
B5 Brewing Company
- From:
- B5 Brewing Company
- Nebraska, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 8.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 27, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 27, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
-
-
WEST COAST IPA 8.6% - Pours a clear golden amber with piney, resinous hop aromas from locally grown hops from Christensen Hop Farm, bright citrus bitterness, and a crisp, dry finish characteristic of classic West Coast IPAs.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.11/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.11/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
B5 Brewing Co. "Ventura Highway"
16 fl. oz. can (crowler) filled on 12/26/2025 and sampled on 12/27/2025
Notes via stream of consciousness: A clear deep golden body is capped by a finger's width of white foam. The aroma is bright and welcoming with sweet malt, citrusy and otherwise fruity notes, and piney hops. The taste delivers what the aroma suggests with a very lightly caramelish, and even honeyish, malt base that's threaded through with notes of juicy apple, peach, nectarine, plum, soft grapefruit, subtle orange, mango, "woodiness", and pine. A firm bitterness balances it and leads to a mainly dry finish with some soft pine and spruce lingering. In the mouth it's medium bodied on the fuller side, and smooth with a gently crisp carbonation. This is a really great beer but: the head retention and lacing could have been better, it's a little bit on the sweet side, and the hops could be brighter. Personally I'm loving it but I can already hear the complaints in my head - "yeah but it's not really a West Coast IPA". OK, I get that, it's not what a lot of people think of as fitting into the West Coast mold but as Michael Jackson (the beer writer, not the musician) told me, you should never let the style get in the way of your enjoyment of a great beer or you'll end up drinking the same beers all of the time. It's the differences that give a beer personality. I think it's the locally grown hops that make it stand out, and I'm all for that on multiple levels. Great beer!
Review #9,425
Dec 27, 202516 fl. oz. can (crowler) filled on 12/26/2025 and sampled on 12/27/2025
Notes via stream of consciousness: A clear deep golden body is capped by a finger's width of white foam. The aroma is bright and welcoming with sweet malt, citrusy and otherwise fruity notes, and piney hops. The taste delivers what the aroma suggests with a very lightly caramelish, and even honeyish, malt base that's threaded through with notes of juicy apple, peach, nectarine, plum, soft grapefruit, subtle orange, mango, "woodiness", and pine. A firm bitterness balances it and leads to a mainly dry finish with some soft pine and spruce lingering. In the mouth it's medium bodied on the fuller side, and smooth with a gently crisp carbonation. This is a really great beer but: the head retention and lacing could have been better, it's a little bit on the sweet side, and the hops could be brighter. Personally I'm loving it but I can already hear the complaints in my head - "yeah but it's not really a West Coast IPA". OK, I get that, it's not what a lot of people think of as fitting into the West Coast mold but as Michael Jackson (the beer writer, not the musician) told me, you should never let the style get in the way of your enjoyment of a great beer or you'll end up drinking the same beers all of the time. It's the differences that give a beer personality. I think it's the locally grown hops that make it stand out, and I'm all for that on multiple levels. Great beer!
Review #9,425
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!