Butte Creek Organic India Pale Ale

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

Bottle - from Hokus Pokus - Pours copper with white head. Citrus and hops nose. Orange peel, grapefruit, sourdough bread, hoppy. Overall, it’s decent, but compared to other IPAs it is average, but good enough.

Had this beer out of a bottle tonight and thought it was really average. All the flavor seems to be up front and then dies. Not very hoppy, but does have a different taste from most IPAs

Poured from a large-sized bottle I bot in a grocery store in Hawaii. A moderately cloudy orange-amber color with a small, bubbly, white head with short retention. A big nose, mostly floral and herbal, with some maltyness and some grainy/earthy hops. The taste was a combination of sourness and heavy bitterness with a touch of candyish sweetness too. The beer was very briefly wet initially, but mostly dry throughout and aftewards. Aggressive bubbles at the finish, but mostly smooth while in hte mouth. The texture was also somewhat oily, and the beer had low to average carbonation.

Incredible foaming power, leaving a mountain of foam in my glass. Significant C hop tangerine aroma combined with some mustiness there. Starts with soft mouthfeel followed by acid and high carbonation. Overall a drinkable beer, although mediocre IPA.

Orange, zesty aroma. Cloudy copper and farily carbonated appearnace. Earth, vegetables (aspargas), and hops flavours. Carbonated palate with bitter finish.

(hops) copper with off white head. Hops aroma. Flavor is grassy hops with a decent malt backbone.

Big caramel accented malt aroma with lighter hop tones that lean towards citrus. The body is a cloudy amber/orange and holds a diminishing, thumb thick, white head. Fairly hoppy fore has a lot of pine, medicinal and herbal bitterness. I was expecting a lot more malt flavor based on the aroma, but it is oddly subdued though still very caramel accented. The alcohol is fairly biting and you taste all 7.1% of it. I confess to thinking that the low score might be because it wasn’t hop forward enough (which I think was the case with the Revolution X from Butte Creek) but this is pretty hop forward it’s just that it is a pretty average beer overall. A little thin and the only massive flavor concentrations are hops followed by alcohol. Very herbal/,edicinal int he finish with mild black pepper notes.

22 oz. bottle - pours clear gold with faoming white head; thick aroma mix of hops and malts; flavor falls flat again - not sure what is with these organic brews i’ve tried, but the flavors don’t come out strong; guess we need the pesticides...haha