Ground Zero

Microbrewery in Bucharest, București - Ilfov, Romania 🇷🇴
Associated with 4 Venues

Established in 2015

Contact
Șoseaua Pipera 44, Bucharest, 077190, Romania
Description
“It started back in 2013, with a glass of beer. Razvan, my brother, invited me to Beer O’Clock in the Old Town area, the only craft beer pub in Bucharest at that moment. He handed me a glass of Punk IPA by Brewdog and told me it will change what I thought I knew about beer. After drinking it, I felt like I was lied my entire life, imprisoned in a box. It is unbelievable how much more a simple glass of beer can offer you, more than what I drank before.
…we realized no one was doing it in Romania and we thought: What if we make a brewery?” – Alin Matache, owner Ground Zero.

With an initial investment of about 100.000 euro won at poker and after many attempts to find the best recipes and the “fight” to obtain all authorizations, Alin and Razvan opened the craft beer studio Ground Zero Beer on 1st of April 2015 in Baneasa, Bucharest.

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6.1
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Minimal beige head left a cover on a light brown still body - strange colour for a NEIPA! Confectionery & Tropical fruits aroma. Medium bodied, soft & low carbonation. Mango, Tropical fruits, melon & confectionery tastes.

Tried on 10 Nov 2019 at 20:01


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tap at Frisches Bier. Cloudy yellow, off-white foam. Light grain sour and bitter orange aroma. Medium body, mellow. Mealy grain base, bitter orange, leafy notes, some olive oil. A bit off.

Tried from Draft on 08 Nov 2019 at 17:28


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks zvsn. Slightly hazy golden. Tropical fruity hops, buttery diacetyl, sweetish, short bitter finish, medium-bodied. OK. Could've been better without the diacetyl.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Oct 2019 at 17:40


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap. Tropical fruit peel nose. Medium light body, fresh, nice passion fruit. Good balance, great example of the style.

Tried from Draft on 11 Oct 2019 at 20:23


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tap at muc CBO. Dry cheesy umami nose. Cloudy Grey yellow, offwhite low head. Medium light body. Cheese cracker, dry, grass, melon, slightly off.

Tried from Draft on 11 Oct 2019 at 17:50


6

Cloudy pastel yellow, white head. The aroma is a bit watery, some tropical notes, fruit flavoured tea bags, aspirin / mineral. Quite thin - both the aroma and flavour. Mild fruit and hop juice, really low on flavour. Light pithy zesty bitterness. Yep, not bad, but way more session than imperial. In fact, not imperial in any way

Tried on 01 Oct 2019 at 11:36


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Hazy golden, white head. Orange pulp, almost no resins. Smooth, but too bland. A rather generic though not and hoppy malty balance, really low bitterness. Ok. Might have a really light funky sour note.

Tried from Draft on 27 Sep 2019 at 15:08


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Spritziger, fruchtig hopfiger Beginn. Hell malzig, fein hopfig, hohe Süffigkeit. Erfrischend, gut. 10/8/10/9//8

Tried on 22 Aug 2019 at 08:26


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

500ml bottle thanks to djoeye for sharing. Snow white head that laced quite well. A wheat haze to a straw-coloured body. Modest wheat fruity aromas. Mid-sweet orange, pears. and peaches to the taste character on a backbone of wheat. Fruity sweetness to the ending. Accepted. (Pivoteka H7, Tromsø 03.08.2019).

Tried from Bottle on 05 Aug 2019 at 06:59


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Stark hopfiger, mild hefiger Beginn. Intensiv hopfig bleibenb, fein getreidig. Mittellanger Abgang. 10/9/10/8//9

Tried on 31 Jul 2019 at 08:22