Flossmoor Station Ahtanumous IPA

Formerly brewed at Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

Date: October 16, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade
Appearance: muddy orange, fine white head, lots of sudsy lace
Aroma: big hop aroma on sweet crystal malt base, touch of fruityness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: big hop flavor, lots of hop bitterness is restrained by a touch of crystal sweetness, touch of citrus, lasting bitter finish
Overall: hop flavor is great but a bit over the top on bitterness for me
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

Finally I got a hold of an IPA from Flossmoor...finally! 22oz, olive waxed bottle. Poured a cloudy medium orange/deeper golden color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of citrus, floral, earhty and piney. Tastes of earthiness, pine and caramel. Not really bitter with a light to medium sweetness. Some lacing left on the glass.

My Bottom Line:
Expressive orangey, piney and sandy hoppiness flourishes over the polite malt cookies, culminating in an eternal resinous bitterness for a chewy and potent India Pale Ale.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam surrounds the hazy orange.
-The mouthfeel on this one is muscular yet friendly. With the intensity and light alcohol felt, this almost drinks like a hopped-up Barley Wine.
-The flavor profile is not really balanced, but I don’t think that’s the point!
-The malts do add some toastiness, which works well with the hop profile.

Bottle.

Thanks to notalush. Deep orange beer with a thin white head. Very cloudy. Aroma is really interesting. Soft and loaded with cologne and bright zesty characters. Lemon verbena, lemon grass and a touch of lime zest as well. Flavour is very soft and fruity with a great balance of soft sweet malt and bright citrusy hoppiness. It finishes with a nice fruitiness and a bright herbal flavour. Citrusy and grassy with a lingering cologne-like flavour. Soft bitterness. Really impressive IPA.

Had this fresh at my home brewpub both from the tap and on cask. Ya know, I’m startiung to get sick of making comments like this, but brewers Matt and Andrew have really assumed ownership of the IPA style. They don’t merely "Hop Bomb!" you, but add a degree of balance and a blending of hop and malt truly that satisfy this Hop-Head. This baby is slightly hazed and amber of body with a sustained head... both versions. The aroma has plenty of citrus hops - grapefruit and lemon zest, mainly - and a solid caramel sweet base supporting it. The flavor tips towards the hops (Yeah!) and has the addition of pine and a quiet earthiness. Nice dry & bitter finish. Another winner here.

Flossmoor Station, Flossmoor, IL

Poured a hazy golden color with a small off-white head. big hop forward aroma with citrus and pine. Some pink grapefruit as well. The malt was almost hidden away in the aroma. Nice hop forward flavor without a bitter finish. Sweet and malty middle with grapefruit and lemon mixed in. Light to a medium body. Pine on the finish with some of it in the middle as well.

Green waxed bottle pours an orange amber with a thin lacing. Very citric hop character, pine, grapefruit with some lighter caramel malt in the back. Sweet tangy grapefruit and some light honey with a very light bittering hop profile to finish, no wonder i liked it so much.

Bomber. Pours an orange-amber with a nice tacky sticky head and cool lace. Aroma is nice and citrusy with a light spiciness to it- god resinous quality and fairly fresh. Slight pine needle coming through int he flavor, with more citrus, resin and a tacky finihs- malt is just there as a backbone- seems mostly pale with a slight sweetnes. Good bitter finish- overall still fresh.