BJs Backdraft IPA

Brewed by BJs Restaurant & Brewhouse
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
, USA

(Boulder) - Typical, and not very assertive. Cookie dough nose, with a bit of floral hop notes every so often. Some average fruit flavors and acidity, with a light to medium bodied flavor.

Draught at BJ’s Boulder. Beer poured a hazy medium orange-amber color with an average, frothy, off-white head. The aroma was malty with moderate notes of toasted grain, cookie and caramel; hoppy with moderate notes of resin/pine and grapefruit; yeasty with moderate note of sweat. The flavor was kind of flatlined; Moderately to heavily bitter, lightly acidic with a long, lightly acidic, moderately-to-heavily bitter, grippy finish. The body was light, the texture was watery and the carbonation was average.

On tap at the Boulder brewpub, 4/14/06: Rusty yellow-orange; no head. Subtle aroma, but stark hop-oil oily oil flavor. Nees a little gas and it’d be the heat!

Barrel Draught from the jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 29/09/2005 Golden coloured and very hoppy. Crisp on the palate with a bitter finish.

Boulder
Very slightly hazy gold. The aroma is grapefruity and woody but not overly assertive. Pale malts and earth on the palate. Chewy, full-expressed bitterness. The same old same old, but slightly different.

nice solid ipa...your usual hubub of cascade citrus hops with a punch of grapefruit. not over the top but quite mild and enjoyable to drink. no sticky cloying flavors that most of these malt extract feeling beers have. i drank 4.

Draught. Pours copper with a small white head and creamy lacing. Floral citrus hop rind and pine aroma. Citrus bitter and huge grapefruit flavor with a caramel malt body. Medium and fizzy palate.

[Draft at BJ’s in Boulder Colorado] A hazy dark orange beer with a small white head. The aroma is very flowery and hoppy from extensive use of aroma hops. The flavor is lovely with notes of hops, oil, and grass, leading to a dry end where the mouthwater just dries out.