Southampton India Pale Ale

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Southampton, New York USA

Poured a hazy amber with a small white head. Tasted slightly of citrus, with a fair amount of hops. Aftertaste was very nice and smooth the whole way through. A good IPA.

Thanks to Jasonmech77 for this. Pours a caramel orange color with a fluffy white head, sticks around forever. Aroma is tart with lemon, old herbs (oregeno?), and pepper, with the slightest toast presence detectable. The flavor is also on the tart side, but a little on actual citrus tastes. There’s more toast malt this time, and a slightly charred wood flavor, some grapefruit and earthy dirty on the back. Finishes bitter, dry, woody and grapefruit-like. Carbonation is moderate and the mouthfeel is...merely there. This is really a pale ale with a bit more hops. If Southampton makes a pale, I can’t imagine it being all that different.

Smells very strongly of citrus hops, very pleasant. Pours a clear copper color with a small white head. Taste citrus, but a little weak, kind of watery. Not unpleasantly so, a nice IPA.

Hazy amber in color, thick head that just doesn’t want to go away. The aroma is of hops with a hint to carmel. This beer feels thick and creamy. It has a really good flavor and a smooth, but not so bitter finish.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy light amber color with a small off white head. The aroma is light caramel malt, floral and citrus hops. The flavor is similar with sweet caramel malts blending with the citrus and floral hops nicely. Medium bodied, dry finish with some bitterness. This is a decent east coast IPA, but doesn’t quite match up to many of the west coast varieties. 5/30/09 Forgot that I had rated this before. New label version is similar, but it seems to be just below when I had this before. Citrus, floral hops with a mildly sweet malt base. Overall this isn’t doing much for me.

Clearish golden-orange pour in my largest snifter covered by a fair 2cm off-white head with patchy lacing. Perfumey nose offers soft nectar and honeyed maltiness, fair pale malt flavours as well. Obviously, the hops steal most of the show with their snappy forest notions and seville orange suggestions. Seems a bit hesitant on the whole, never really expanding, always bearing a strong carbonation that enhances the dryness, but also its mineral leanings. Salty, quick finish for an IPA. Light-bodied and rather fresh tasting, but for a mild metallic undertones. A relatively soft IPA, quite spot on, but unpretentious and quite heavy on the minerals.

Bottle. Poyrs a hazy golden color with a fat white head. Aroma of hops and citrus with a faint floral smell. Taste is lightly bitterand hoppy. There is a bit of malt in the flavor as well. Has a medium body with a hop, grapefruit type finish.

Rerate This beer seems like a completely different recipe than the one I sampled a couple years ago (in the red-labeled bottle pictured above). So, I feel compelled to re-rate it now that it’s being distributed here in KC. It pours a clear, pale copper/gold with a thin, creamy off-white head; patchy lace. The nose is of biscuity pale malt behind fruity and earthy English hops. This smells more like an ESB than an IPA. Medium-bodied with soft carbonation and a moderately bitter finish. The flavor is fairly true to the nose: fairly sweet, biscuity malt with fruity, floral and mildly earthy hops running into a lingering bitter hopped finish. This is a decent enough beer, but it isn’t anything worth writing home about. For my money, I greatly prefer their double wit.

Original Rating 10/26/07Bottle courtesy of goldtwins. Pours a clear, deep amber-orange with a frothy beige head and patchy lacing. The nose is of citric hops and sweet caramel malt. Medium-bodied and slick, the mouthfeel finishes bitter and resinous. The flavor is a solid caramel malt front with a big hop back: citrus, pine and resin that linger long after the swallow. Perhaps not as balanced as I’d like, but a solid IPA nevertheless. Thanks again for sending this one Larry. Original #s: 7/5/7/3/14=3.6