Burning Bush IPA
Golden Road Brewing in Los Angeles, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.95
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mcberko (47456) reviewed Burning Bush IPA from Golden Road Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Mikkeller San Francisco, pours a clear golden orange with a medium beige / tan head. Aroma is quite fruity, with resinous hops, some tropical fruits, and fruity caramel malt. Flavour is rather dry and woody, bringing out wet wood, some cardboard, piney hops, and dry woody malts. Unusually woody for a IIPA, but the flavours mesh well enough, leaving no residual sugars. Competent IIPA, just nothing special.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Burning Bush IPA from Golden Road Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Bine & Vine. Aroma of floral hop, but it’s a bit strange. Med body. Flavor is floral, and then there’s clearly smoke. More smoke than seems reasonable? The malt is supportive, but I’m thinking Brewdog Paradox here. Or maybe that German brewery that only does smoked. Well, I’m getting used to it, it’s pretty tasty after all, and I think it will go well with my personally prepared mustard chicken (on the barby). Still, it took a different sort of mind to come up with this. Good result tho.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Burning Bush IPA from Golden Road Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16oz can pours, wait, what? Smoked IPA? Interesting. It pours with a clear copper body that has pervasive golden hues and supports a thin near white head. The modest aroma offers up some citrus hops, sweet malts and if I didn’t know any better I’d say no smokiness but there is a faint rauch malt thing going on well off in the background. The taste has pleasing malt sweetened citrus hoppiness flowing into an intriguing mix of resiny pine hops, spicy wood and a light peaty smokiness around the edges. Nice. The smoke and peat like sensation build some into the finish. If you’re gonna do a smoked IPA this seems to attain a nice balance where a nice IPA hoppiness is up front and a subtle smokiness and wood is in the back. I dig it. I like the citrus hop flavor, resiny pine to spicy wood notes and mild smokiness. Well done.
bb (18428) reviewed Burning Bush IPA from Golden Road Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Rich amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit and light smoke aroma. Pine and grapefruit flavor with light cocoa and light smoke. Medium bodied. OK bitterness. Pine and grapefruit linger with smoke, light caramel, and light cocoa.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the grand opening. Really an odd beer. Pours with a hazed golden-orange hue with a lasting off-white head. Aromas are lightly smokey, big bready and caramel malt notes. A bit of a citrus and floral hop character. Very different. Flavors are also very different than the norm (different, but not bad). Citrusy hop character, light caramel, wood/fire, smoke, biscuity malt profile (quite malty) and some alcohol notes. Medium to slightly fuller body. Not particularly dry. Medium bubbles. A unique and pretty tasty beer.