Ground Zero
Microbrewery
in
Bucharest,
București - Ilfov,
Romania 🇷🇴
Associated with 4 Venues
Established in 2015
Contact
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.
…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.
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cloudy dullish gold, frothy head. The aroma is moderate ripe citrus and pith, just a little malt sugars/honey. Not as crazy hoppy as the more upmarket beers, but still pretty respectable. Tastes even less fruity and malty, with more emphasis on the mild and soft pithy hop oils. A very nicely done, less fruit-juicy hazy IPA.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2019
at 13:08
8/10
Roasted malt, licorice, caramel, chocolate, roasted coffee, coconut, sour cherries. Complex but a bit unbalanced. 3.9
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2019
at 00:05
7/10
Coffee, caramel, herbal bitterness, oranges. Not bad. 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
at
Blend Brews & Bites
on 18 Feb 2019
at 12:04
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy golden amber, almost no head. The aroma is mostly coffee, the acrid/manure/fermented vegetation variety - earthy roast, spent beans, wet grass - minimal crystal sugars and fruity esters in the background. And... No hops? At all? The taste is also coffee-driven, moderare malts, roasty acrid coffee bitterness. And no hops. One of the weakest beers from this brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2019
at 21:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Opaque black, dark espresso head. The aroma is rather sweet chocolate, rich and sticky and candyish, lots of coconut, some coconut oil bitterness. The taste is rather sweet too, really sweet chocolate and treacle, as well as coconut flakes. Then there's enough spicy hop / coconut oil bitterness that really saves it, making this enjoyable desert still feel like a beer. So, even though it is way too far into the pastry territory, it has a certain smoothness - does not feel cheap, and the balance is enjoyable in the end. A good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2019
at 11:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cloudy golden, bright enough, off-white head. The aroma is juicy citrus, oranges and tangerines, with some bitter pith echoes. No actual malts or sugars, but the sheer density points to a higher gravity brew. Similar taste - moderately sweet orange juice, restrained pithy bitterness, not much zesty sharpness. Again, no proper malty sweetness, and it feels quite easy drinking, but the taste is big enough not to let one forget the abv. Fresh, clean, no high hop rate oxidation problems. Very solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2018
at 22:12
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Tom L's place. Thanks troubles. Cloudy yellow, white head. Graininess, somewhat spicy, fruity, sweetish, bread, light bitterish hint with a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2018
at 09:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
BOTTLE 33 CL from Berero. Hazy orange, big off-white head with lacing. Smells of citrus peel, tutti frutti chewing gum and some grass. The taste has a light weight tropical fruit profile, moderate fresh fruit sweetness and a moreish pungent bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2018
at 13:29
7/10
Chocolate, roast, wine barrel, light oak mould, some dark berries. 3.7
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2018
at 19:08
7/10
Caramel, bitter medicine, grapefruit, light tropical fruit, berries. Leaning more on the malty side. 3.7
Tried
from Bottle
at
Viniloteca
on 06 Jul 2018
at 18:24