Butte Creek Organic IPA

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

A friend of mine found this on his recent exploits. A bit thin. Understated hop profile for the style. A good beer, but there is absolutely nothing special or outstanding about this.

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

not exactly a "liberal" hop presence when you take into account where this same from. as with all their beers, it's a little on the thin and prickly side, but fresh - the hops are pretty well represented with a nice citrus backbone.

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

Draught@SBWF2009. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, some grains as well as some mild vegetably and grassy notes as well. Flavour is rains, vegetables, some fruity hops.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Aroma is quite strong and hoppy with a slight citrus undertone. It pours a nice clear orange-gold amber with a fairly thick off-white head. Flavor is strongly hoppy and quite bitter, but nastily rather than pleasantly so. There is also a tinny tone. I hope this bottle came from a bum batch! Texture is a bit thin and watery, and the finish is nastily bitter and metallic.

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

Pretty average (at best) for an IPA. Seemed really light in the hops department for an IPA. Maybe a pale ale would be a better description, but then again the ABV is fairly high. The beer really just didn’t do much in either the aroma and taste, while it looks really nice in my chalice. Aroma is faint hops, light caramel malts, a touch soapy with hard to mistake bready note. Flavor has some really mild piney hops going for it, some light caramel malts...just really seemed like a watery IPA or something that between a pale ale and an IPA. I dunno. Pretty forgettable.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 7

Maybe it is the weather today or my intense need for a hop filled beer, but this one hit the spot. The aroma is of mellow hops(is that an oxymoron). The appearance is slightly more bronze to brown than most IPAs. The mouthfeel is average for an IPA slight heavier than crisp. The flavor was for me the perfect amount of hops, enough to make your mouth tingle but not quite enough to make you cringe with delight. Overall i did like this beer and would love a second one.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours out in a crystal clear pale amber colour with a huge rocky white foam. Rather hoppy but not enough aromatic nose of straw, grapefruit and licorice. Medium bodied with notes of cookies, straw, leaves and grapefruit. Very clean mouthfeel. Medium-bitter finish of grass, currant-leaves and late grapefruit. Decent IPA.

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

Bottle courtesy of CBA: Poured a medium amber color ale with a big foamy head with good retention but no lacing. Aroma of bitter hops with some caramel malt notes. Taste is also dominated by some bitter hoppy notes with a nice caramel malt profile. Medium body with some good carbonation. Nothing extraordinary but a well done beer as per style guideline.

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

Pours a clear amber/coppery color with a thin off-white head which fades to a thin ring that leaves behind some fine lacing. Smell; this has a sweet caramel malty, almost nutty smell to it. There's very little hop aroma at all, which I'm kind of suprised by since this is supposed to be an IPA. Aroma was definitely disapointing for an IPA. Taste; I get lots of biscuity caramel malts, and not much in the way of hops, as the aroma indicated. I can't see how this is classified as an IPA. It seems much closer to an amber ale. Mouthfeel is pretty smooth and creamy, with decent carbonation.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Hazy color in between copper and amber. Smallish head that is fairly short lived. The aroma is an interesting hop (since it’s organic it may be those unique New Zealand hops I’ve been wondering about). Orangey and a bit of soft berry like a cross between raspberry and blackberry. The body is a decent malt, but seems a bit too sweet. Nice lingering bitterness. Really not a bad beer at all. Not exactly the typical IPA, though.