AGAquino (92), San Juan, Puerto Rico
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Nov 28, 2009 Bottle at Bar Volo, clear ambar colour with nice head; pronounced hoppy aroma; nice hoppy bitter flavour, and nice lingering aftertaste
 Trev (887), Lakeville, Minnesota, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 27, 2009 light amber-dark gold pour with a medium tight white head.
aroma is floral and citrus hop with some caramel maltiness.
Flavour is nice medium malt, caramel and some breadiness.
Herbal and grapefruit hop flavour.
very solid IPA.
fredthecat (203), Canada
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 19, 2009 smell is pine, lemon. reddy amber with a disappearing head
smooth piney taste, sage, bitter herbs, straight up tastes like hops, that kind of almost cannabis taste, alcohol kind of shines through. medium bodied, nice and smooth. damn good. need to get it again
DeadGirl (243), West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 19, 2009 Pours a bright, clear, yellowish copper from the 12oz. bottle: Nose of citrusy, grassy hops. Taste is similar with more of a malted balance than an overload of hops. I live for that severe overload. Lightly carbonated and bodied, this ale unfortunately feels a little lackluster. Drinkability: A vibrant and solid IPA, but may fall short to hopheads. Rebuy: I mean, it’s SoTi and an IPA! Of course I’m buying again. #201 on 19112009, DG.
Heathen (810), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 15, 2009 THOUGHTS: Better balanced than the new Pale Ale., but still a little hop heavy. Not very memorable, but nice.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a light to medium orange with an average, ever so slightly, off-white head that mostly diminished, but somehow left excellent lacing. The aroma was nice, but a little weak. There was moderate, caramel malt, lighter candied fruit and moderate to heavy orangey hops and lighter resinous hops. The initial flavor was sweet and lightly bitter; while the finish was sweeter and rather bitter with a long duration. There was orangey citrus hops, candied fruit, pine hops and caramel. The light to medium body was a little syrupy and then slightly dry with lightly fizzy carbonation and a slightly chalky and lightly metallic finish.
jbender (23), Hatboro, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 13, 2009 On draft at Isaac Newtons. Pours a golden amber color. Cascade dominates the aroma as well as the flavor. Pretty good IPA but there is definitely better.
13mikey (167), New Hope, Minnesota, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 12, 2009 12 oz bottle from TC Craft. Golden brown pour with a thin white head. Fresh, citrus, hoppy aroma. Typical IPA flavor, not too in your face. Nice and hoppy with a bitter finish. Decent but uneventful for me.
chriso (4852), London, Greater London, England
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 12, 2009 On tap at Kinsale Irish Pub, Boston MA, 29 October 2009. Orange colour. Clear. Thin white head. Quite moist, slightly spicy hop aroma. A sweet edge presages the flavour which is ever so sweet and very leafy. There is plenty of hop presence but it is not at all bitter and fails to produce much grip. This leaves the beer feeling a bit flabby (not to mention sickly sweet) on the palate. The bitterness only appears in the aftertaste. Serviceable but not one of Southern Tier’s better offerings on this showing - maybe not at its freshest.
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