Today, September 09 (2014), BJ’s Restaurants across the nation tapped the limited release BJ’s Field Day IPA. The Field Day IPA is a wet-hopped IPA whereby the hops are picked from a hop farm in Oregon and shipped straight from the field directly to the BJ’s brewery in Reno.
The result is a 6.5% ABV, 65 IBU IPA.
The Field Day IPA is a solid IPA with a respectable floral aroma and a good amount of hop balance.
Unfortunately, the 2014 Field Day IPA is not as good as the 2012 Field Day IPA.
The 2012 Field Day IPA was in essence, one of greatest IPAs I’ve ever had in my life. It had a smooth hop balance, without the hard bite of an IPA, and an incredible floral aroma that is unmatched, even by Russian River Pliny the Younger. Yes, I said unmatched by Pliny the Younger.
But the 2014, nor the 2013, Field Day IPA has been able to recreate the magic of the 2012 batch. The 2014 batch is solid, but just not a great IPA. If you’re a beer lover, you still need to get to a BJ’s Restaurant and have a couple glasses of Field Day IPA 2014. But in a beer market saturated by IPAs, the 2014 Field Day IPA just doesn’t set itself apart like it could.
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