Southern Tier IPA

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Lakewood, New York USA

This is a very solid IPA. For a while I’d heard about the wildness of the Southern Tiers and I finally found some, and certainly they did not disappoint. This is unique in the world of IPAs, pretty subdued on the hops and a very "wet" flavor, but masks the substantial abv% quite well. It reminds me of Sierra Nevada Torpedo; but less hopped and better balanced. The smell is wonderful, piney-sweetish and slightly citrusy. Appearance and mouth are run-of-the-mill for IPAs. Very sessionable (most IPAs are to me but this one more than most). I will drink the bejesus out of this brew for as long as I can get it.

Pale golden pour light head and just a little lacing ... hoppy citrus and piney aroma little bit of sweet malt on the nose as well .... a hint of sweet malt and then all citrus hop and resin flavor finishes with a little hop spice and a dry aftertaste .... a solid ipa

12oz bottle from Chevy Chase in DC. Triple-hopped, huh? Just like Miller Lite! Pours a clear golden color with a medium-sized white head and some lacing. Aroma is sweet pale malt, grain, floral and citrus hops. Flavor is a little grainy and sweet with lots of pale malt and some citrusy hops. Medium body with lively carbonation and some hop resins on the palate.

Bottle at Bar Volo, clear ambar colour with nice head; pronounced hoppy aroma; nice hoppy bitter flavour, and nice lingering aftertaste

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.

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

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.

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.