Butte Creek Organic India Pale Ale

Brewed by Butte Creek Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chico, California USA

Pretty average (at best) for an IPA. Seemed really light in the hops department for an IPA. Maybe a pale ale would be a better description, but then again the ABV is fairly high. The beer really just didn’t do much in either the aroma and taste, while it looks really nice in my chalice. Aroma is faint hops, light caramel malts, a touch soapy with hard to mistake bready note. Flavor has some really mild piney hops going for it, some light caramel malts...just really seemed like a watery IPA or something that between a pale ale and an IPA. I dunno. Pretty forgettable.

Draught@SBWF2009. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, some grains as well as some mild vegetably and grassy notes as well. Flavour is rains, vegetables, some fruity hops.

Bottle shared by largadeer on BA. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head. Aroma is nail polish, caramel, and resiny hops. Besides the nail polish, it’s not too bad. Flavor is below average with burnt wood, caramel, resiny hops. A little weird but not too bad. Palate a bit watery with medium carbonation.

Draught@SBWF 2009
Clear amber color, small steady white head. Yeast, rubber, sweaty hops in the nose. Sweaty, fruity (peach, apricot), hoppy and alcoholic. A bit weird for being American IPA.

A somewhat more translucent appearance than I usually see in an IPA. Aroma is typical, but nothing amazing. Light and piney. There’s something a little off about the taste. It falls a little flat, like it was overhopped without much consideration for balance. It’s drinkable, but it’s an average sampling of the style.

12oz bottle from bevmo. Bright copper with a medium dense head. Malty aroma with fruit, bread, and some earthiness. Strong malt flavor with subdued hops bitterness and a slightly sweet finish. Well-balanced but without much acidity.

a decent beer thats unbalanced and not really to my taste. its like they tried to jumble a load of flavors together so you dont notice the high abv, which you still do. citrus flavor comes out but is washed away by random sweetness good aftertaste. not bad overall but wont be buying it again.

Looks promising, but the smell is rather weak with a light sprucey aroma. First taste is a bit cloying...quite a bit sweeter than is necessary. Decent hop flavor, with a bit of maltiness there, but nothing great jumps out. Has a slight alcohol bite that skirts the edges. If this were an amber or an APA, I might consider it pretty good, but as an IPA, it doesnt impress me. Mostly a mixed up and unbalanced beer, yet at the same time the more I drink it, the more I think its not too bad.This rating is a lot of babble.