Zen IPA
BluCreek Brewing Company in Madison, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.74
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nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Zen IPA from BluCreek Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle. Opaque orange-tan color, foamy off white head. The aroma is strong and certainly unique, some earthy floral hops doused in a herbal green tea. Medium body, with some earthy, flowery hop character and an odd lemon-lime tea taste on top of the toasty malt. Some English IPA qualities, but pretty much a unique concoction. Doesn’t exactly work out so well, but the bottle hardly wreaks of freshness either. OK at best.
notalush (7362) reviewed Zen IPA from BluCreek Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Pours a murky, copper/orange/brown, with a fizzy body, but almost no head despite this - it kind of looks like carbonated green tea, ironically enough - a bit of bready malt in the aroma, with some herbal hops, chalky character, and honey sweetness - the green tea is fairly apparent in the flavor, even more so than the hops - some doughy british maltiness and dry mineral character arrive later - it tastes like someone dropped a shot of green tea into an english bitter - it’s original, but not very good.
JK (8171) reviewed Zen IPA from BluCreek Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
An overall light pale ale, but the tea is there in the flavor so that makes this an interesting changeup from the usual ipas. Gold color, and sadly the hops are too light in the aroma and the flavor. Mild malt base. The green tea is an interesting idea but they need to put in a decent quality beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pour is a hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is deffinalty all IPA. Very much citrus and floral hops with a some caramel malts. Flavor is where this one is different. Very herbal and so much so it takes away from the hops. Gave it a decent rating b/c it was a good attempt and it almost worked. Make the hops show up over the green tea and you got something here.