Southern Tier Phin & Matts Extraordinary Ale

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Lakewood, New York USA

12 oz. bottle from a Southern Tier Pack of Pales 12 pack sampler. Pale golden orange color. Slightly hazy. Minimal head. Light hoppy bitterness. Light to medium body. A bit too much carbonation. Average finish. Overall, a drinkable beer that is not much more than average.

Picked a bottle at total wine springfield on the last trip home. Pours a clear orange color. Aroma of toasty malt and a little bit of grassy hops. Bit of a creamy texture and smooth caramel malt. Finish is some hop bitterness. A decent sessionable beer.

Bottle, pours clear amber with small soft head, lots of little bubbles. Aroma is subtle soft malt and sweet friut like apricot. Tatse is blah weak. soft sweetness coates the tongue and leaves a slight dry finish

On tap at Beer Temple. Clear golden copper colour, white head. Aroma of light hops, malts, caramel, fruity yeast, rather English and all very light. Flavour is about the same, with a piny hoppy bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. Nice session ale.

Bottle. Probably held onto this one a bit long. Pours a lightly hazy gold with an enormous creamy white head that makes me think this may be infected. Small gray sediment and floaties. Cardboard, dry Styrofoam, and some musky yeast. Smells a little like an old Belgian pale. Papery, spicy, and huge carbonation. Light bitterness with a touch of buttery sweetness. Definitely infected. I’ll have to get another one of these fresh at some point and re-rate.

12oz bottle. Pours a crystal clear, orange-golden colored body with a finger-width, frothy, white head that dissipates quickly and leaves a light lacing on the surface, but a good amount on the glass. Aroma is a flowery, malty sweetness with a faint toasted biscuit and some honey. A light orange, citrus fruit accompanies the caramels as well. Flavor is an initial, flowery orange sweetness with a thin honey, tea, slightly minty bread malt. Some grapefruit bitterness, biscuits, and grainy caramels as well. Finishes lightly bittered with a good amount of flowery, bright citrus and some minty, honey sweetened caramels that linger for a moderate duration. Fairly thin bodied. Overall, this was a tough beer to rate. The flavor was pretty nice, but the body was way too thin. It was nicely balanced and had other things I really liked, but it also had too many things I disliked. I think "Phin & Matt" need to rethink puting their name on this beer.

12 oz bottle. Pours yellow with a white head that lasts. This is a bad beer. This is a very bad beer. When I poured this into a glass, my friend commented that it looked like Corona; it didn’t get any better from there.

dark gold pour with a medium white head. Aroma is fairly strong citrus hoppiness, some caramel maltiness underneath. Bready sweet malty body with a medium fruity herbal hop bitterness to the flavour.