Butte Creek Organic Pale Ale

Brewed by Butte Creek Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Chico, California USA

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Clear dark amber, airy head. Sweaty hoppy nose. Salty and fruity, medium bodied with chewy crystal malt profile. Increasingly bitter finish. Good!

Draught@SBWF2009. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, mildly herbal as well as some slight grassy notes. Flavour is wood, herbs, mild fruits and grass.

Golden-amber colour. Bright, with a rich head. Some leafy hop nose. Some iodine as well. There’s a fair bit of bitterness, but it carries some asringency, like bitter melon. Woody finish typical of organic hops.

Draught@SBWF 2009
Dark amber color, steady white head. Sweaty, hoppy and grainy aroma. Sticky harsh flavor: grains, some hops, a bit alcohol and wood. Long harsh aftertaste.

12 oz bottle-pours a dissipating off white head and amber color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel, some fruit, some hops. Taste is medium malt-caramel, some fruit, some hops. Easy drinking.

Bottle: Hazy copper, light gusher with a puffy white head and nice lacing. The nose is bright and grassy with a touch of orange peel and malt. The flavor is sunny with a bright floral hop note and a muted maltiness. The finish is clean and grassy. Good pale ale, right in the middle.

Nice aroma of grapefruit and caramel. Amber color. Minimal white head. Thin to medium body with almost chewy carbonation. Starts with caramel or better, and is quickly balanced with that grapefruit hop. At the finish there’s a short burst of kiwi fruit. Then it’s dry and persistingly and pleasantly bitter. Could pass for an IPA.

Spicy pine aroma with sweet underlying malts. Clear burnished copper coloured body topped by a shy white head that recedes to a partial cover. Hop flavour is sharp with lightly toasty malts but bitterness is rather subdued. Medium light body is lightly astringent with medium carbonation. Bottle sampled with Beershine and Oakes.