Butte Creek Organic India Pale Ale

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

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of biscuity hops, malts, and caramel. Poured amber in color with a small off-white head. Hazy. Sparkling. Some large particles. Lightly bitter flavor. Tastes of malts, hops, biscuits, chocolate, and water. Light to medium body. Thin, chalky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Hoppy, malty, dry finish.

Copper color with a medium head. Buttery and caramel aroma. Earthy and spicy hop taste. Iced tea. Dusty finish.

[Bottle] Pours dark orange with a decent beige head. Aroma is really sweet caramel--much more present than the piney hops that are surprisingly subdued. Taste is more hoppy, with a fair amount of bitterness and pine pushing the caramel malt into the background. Decent mouthfeel with a long, albeit not particularly pleasant, finish that is a mix of malt and hop bitterness (this is where the most bitterness was). Not a real impressive IPA, but it wasn’t awful.

bottle poured a golden amber color with a one finger white head that left a creamy dollop on the surface. aroma has resinous pine hops, thick caramel malt, bitterness, and faint citrus. mouth feel is medium light with lighter carbonation. flavor has a well rounded hop and malt combination not leaning to one side or the other. resinous pines and bitterness, bit of minerals, slight chewiness, and a touch of sweetness. finish is predominately resinous and bitter but a little thin.

Clear golden coloured body with a thin white head. Aroma of fresh hops with a good malt presence, coupled with grapefruit and a bit of pine. Medium-bodied; Strong hoppy flavour shows serious hops, fresh malt and a little bit of a metallic twang. Aftertaste has a good malt backbone with some pungent alcohol and more of a hop flavour with a bitter hop finish. Overall, a good IPA, but not amazing. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased on 06-June-2008 from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan sampled on 09-August-2008.

Pours a copper orange color with a nice off white head. Aroma of grapefruit, hops and malt. Flavor is hops, malt and a funky off taste that can best be described as some type of grain.

Bottled. Poured clear, healthy medium orange with a thick, creamy cap of off-white head. The aroma picked up drier grapefruit, pine, and perfumey hoppage over orange and pale malt sweetness. The flavor had sweet bready pale malts at the core with a dry, somewhat stale feel rolling off the edges.. bitterness was moderate with pine and perfume leading the way.. finished bitter and somewhat refreshing. Medium-bodied with higher carbonation on the palate.. finished warm and drier. Decent brew.

this company’s pale ale has better ratings than their ipa, that’s strange. but not when you’ve had this ipa, sort of a strange tasting, not satisfying beer.