Butte Creek Organic India Pale Ale

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

Pours a deeper amber with off white head. Nose is mildly hopped with the citric tones that tend to come with it. Flavor is massive with hops. It borders on overkill with lack of balance. Strong sweet tone that combines with citrus flavors. If this were one notch higher, I think it would be too much. And as it is, it still might be too much for some. Feel is smooth and carries a great bubble over your tongue. Good drinkability, but might not be as much for people who are not keen to hops. Overall though, a very good brew. And hey. It’s organic too.

Date: April 12, 2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Jan
Appearance: Clear amber, thin off white head
Aroma: lightly hopped malt aroma
Flavor: rich malt flavor with assertive hops, touch of carmel sweetness, lonq bitter finish

Date: June 28, 2006
Mode: draft
Appearance: solid lace
Aroma: rich sweet carmel malt and citrus hop aroma
Flavor: well bittered carmel malt flavor, lots of rich carmel malt and lots of bitterness to balance it

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Orange amber with decent tan head / Bland, sweet sour malt nose / Medium body with light hop finish / Plain flavors of burnt sugar with undertones of sweet malt - no citrus / Not bad, but mediocre.

Expensive 6-pack in Calgary. $17.00. Orange with a long lasting large creamy foam head. Stick bits of lacing tracks all the way down the glass. A great looking beer. Keep swirling the glass but only get a moderate hop nose which is weird because I know the hops are in there. Flavour is exactly what I would expect from a solid IPA. Some grapefruit but more wood. Some variation sip to sip but a dominant strong hop finish.

Bottle, purchased from Good Harvest in Waukesha, WI. Very malty for an IPA, also had an almost fruity taste. Lots of head on this. Would try again. (Also used it in a delicious beer bread recipe, superb!)

12oz bottle. Upon opening the the bottle it made a his and that was just the start. Pour was like I have done in many a pint glass. But this one head just swelled up and got about 3 oz of beer. After 20 minutes of waiting for foamy head to settle finally got about 6oz of beer from 12oz bottle. Malt barley and some sweet citrus orange aromas and flavors. IF it takes you 20 minutes to pour a beer is it really worth it, hell don’t even know why I’m wasting my time on this one.

A very nice IPA with strong hoppy goodness. Worth a try as its pretty inexpensive and easy to come by in the Bay Area. Has a nice amber color and smooth palate.

amber pour with white head. weak scent of some organic bullshit hops. tastes bland with weak hops and bullshit citrus. aftertaste is very mild with little afterbite. Bullshit ipa thats very drinkable but boring doesn’t stand out at all and can get lost in a crowd.