Flossmoor Station Ahtanumous IPA

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

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.

Bottle courtesy of inkubus27. Pours a light brown with a small foamy light tan head. Aroma of lots of bitter piney hops and some citrus. Flavor of the same piney hops with a nice caramel malt body. A little sweeter than the other Flossmoor IPAs. Some tropical fruits start to come out as the beer warms (nice mango and passion fruit!). Wow, this is tasty!! I love the sweetness/hops balance. Probably my second favorite IPA after Two Hearted. Awesome, just awesome!

[Bottle olive-green wax] Pours a slightly hazy orange amber with a thin white head. Big grapefruit, resin, piney, caramel, peach aroma. First taste is super dry and earthy bitter, followed by sweet honey/sugar, slightly toasty/biscuit with lots of piney/resin earthy hops. The earthiness is balanced really well which usually doesn’t happen with such bitter hops. Very sticky stuff, maybe too sugary, but this is a great IPA.

Hazy caramel with light but foamy off-white head / Light malty, fruit nose / LIght to medium body, with sweet malts offset by big, fresh hops, and with good finish / Flavors of caramel, fresh pine, cream, aged cheese?, and grapefruit / A lovely, fresh, and delicate ipa.

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.

Thanks to valpoaj for this bomber - turbid orange beer, with and sticky, soapy lacing - very tangy citrus aroma, with an almost wheaty character to it - kind of a lemony tang to the flavor, which compliments the strong, citrusy hops - the sweetness is on the high side for the style, but given its slightly higher adv, it’s forgivable - plus it seems to work with the fruity character - another nice one from flossmoor.

Olive wax bomber bottle. I get to put this beer on the ratings map; and with a bottle I bought at the brewpub (no time to sit and enjoy, I’m afraid). Pours dark amber, big amber head, and I thought I caught some greenish overtones??? Shows hazy. Two weeks from bottling, this has a joyous pinecone hop smell, like a fresh Christmas wreath. (THAT’S why I should cellar these IPAs away, but will I learn?) Taste is all sticky with more resiny hops. But not too bitter. I looked up Ahtanum hops and found that’s just what they’re for. So I get a big nose of pine and grapefruit over a bed of darker-than-normal crystal malts. Having moved away from the South Suburbs, I may start missing some of Matt & Andrew’s brews that made me one of this site’s most loyal raters of a single brewer. But not this time. I’m a happy boy! And to think I got a whole bomber bottle worth!

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.