Butte Creek Mt. Shasta Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Aroma nicely balances malt and hop components. Color is a clear amber-golden, typical of a pale ale, not much head. Flavor is smooth, malty, just a tad thin, with some hints of hops. A good ale for a laid-back time or with a meal.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

Blah blah blah! A disgrace to the beautiful Mountain that this beer shares it's name with. It just tasted like it was marketed to people that like a more yellow bland beer. Pass...

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 6

The bottle and website offer this as an "Extra Pale Ale." I'm thinking more of a Scottish or even a California Common, but not Pale Ale. But hey, they want to claim Pale, I'm going to rate it accordingly. Pours a very pale amber with little head and no lacing. Scent is dank, actually, very earthy. Malt presence, but it's almost mossy smelling. Taste for a Pale is just wrong. The hops are subtle and the malt coying, but the taste is earthy and mossy and not very complex. WTF were they thinking? Mouthfeel is light yet creamy, but not to style. Overall (again for the style) it sucks. I'm going to be a bit more generous here and say that it's a decent beer. There's nothing offensive and it's easily quaffable. I can't help but to think the brewery wasn't misguided somehow in producing this. They do much better.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Hazy amber body is topped by a short-lived , small white head. The aroma is lightly hoppy and a touch of malt. The malt in the flavor tastes like italian or french bread crusts. The hops are a supporting role, but the whole thing is a bit thin and watery.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

The aroma is somewhat sweet and malty with some hints of grain as well as some floral overtones and is dry-like. The appearance is a hazy, light bronze in color with a nice head on top that is crisp and off-white in color and remains on top throughout consumption. The mouthfeel is light-bodied and crisp with a nice, wet pallet with good floral complexity with good hoppy balance that is refreshing. The flavor is hoppy with bitter characteristics with hints of sweet, dried-flowers with an aftertaste that is okay but a bit thin and not that challenging. Overall, this is a good pale ale with high drinkability but would not be my first choice if I wanted a pale ale to drink in a session at a bar. This is a solid pale ale but I have had better examples of this style for sure.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

ZZZZzzzz.

Vat is dis? A non-organic beer from Butte Creek? Maybe now we'll see what the brewmaster can do, when not being hobbled with using only duller-than-dull organic ingredients, eh?

Umm...., or maybe not. From the rather subdued appearence (hazy tangerine in body, little-to-no head, no lacing) to the only average aroma, this doesn't start off very impressive. And doesn't seem to go anywhere later on, either...

"Perle and Mt. Hood hops and the floral character of Cascade", doth quote the website. Well, if that's the case, then things really need to get cranked up a notch or three, for this to be called an "Extra Pale Ale"... yet alone a full-fledged APA. Soft and mushy in the mouthfeel, but oddly this works for me in this case. Reasonably drinkable, I suppose.

Not horrible, but really seems like a lost opprotunity for this brewery to strut it's stuff in a non-organic context. Missing on a few cylinders, to say the least.

Not a dumper, but really quite forgetable.

Music: Rocket From The Crypt's "Live From Camp X-Ray".
//TB

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Its a rather insipid average looking ale..a dark golden colour,little to no head,minimal lace. smell is oddly , for an Pacific Pale, mostly of malts..theres some hop in the far background. Taste again is mainly of malts at the front then the whole thing fizzles out..little hop aftertaste. Pretty boring on the tongue..thin. Not a great attempt at a Pale..with the malts on the front of the tongue I thought maybe this was going to be an English style pale..but it really never went anywere

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

A copper apperance with a flat head. A malty flavor but the malt is drowning in all the water! "Help, help! I need a life preserver" says the malt. The hop says "Excuse me malt I thought I saw a few more of MY kind around here but I seem to have lost them in all this water!" The malt replies "Whoo, luckily I found this life preserver! But Im sorry Ive only seen a few hops but none recently, I seem to see alot of YOUR kind on the other side of Chico, CA at this place called Sierra Nevada!" The hop replies "Damn you malt!" ---- Uh well anyway this is more like a boring blonde ale than a pale ale. I'll pass.