Summit India Pale Ale

Brewed by Summit Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

A copper color beer with little head. Aroma was sweet, with mild hoppiness. Taste was sweet with mild crisp hops,& caramel. The mouthffel was a little oily. This is not overly hoppy but better than some other really sweet IPA’s.

12 oz. Clear darkish copper with a lasting quarter inch of creamy foam above. Nose is earthy tea leaf with some light marshmallow cream. Flavor is earthy tea leaf with some orange wood and light caramel. Nice crunchy lacing left on the glass. Light-medium body is smoothly carbonated and finishes crisply dry. Very nice session brew.

Pours amber with a large, uneven offwhite head. Nose is hops and citris. Taste is moderately hoppy, with notes of citris and grapefruit. A decent IPA, but nothing spectaclar.

12 oz bottle. The aroma’s not bad, though it doesn’t scream out anything special to me. Notes of earthy hop, minor pine, some medium sweet fruits, some pale grains, and a slight off bitter. Nothing special on the pour. Light small bubbled white head, lighter body, and light copper in color. Actually fairly well balanced, and feels pretty nice in the mouth, though definitely not all that aggressive as the description says. There is a good amount of straight bitter in this beer without any real distinctive character behind it. This isn’t really that bad to me, but is definitely it’s biggest downside. Similar, earthy pine and medium fruit, and pale grains are in the flavor notes. This is really not all that bad of a sessioning beer, but upon closer taste, it’s a pretty middle of the road ipa.

I shared a bottle of this with BeerBaron617 this evening. It’s not a fantastic IPA, however it’s a pretty good overall brew - something you could drink with a dinner. It poured a dark amber color with a tight off-white head. Had a nice hoppy aroma, light thought, not very malty. It had a decent hop bite to it, and a very light bit of malt to it. Not balanced in an amazing way, however very tolerable. I would say this is certainly an ok brew.

From a bottle poured a copper color with a lot of head. Hoppy flavor with a lingering aftertaste.

Really high carbonation for an IPA, which I tend to like. Nose is mostly dandelions and caramel malt. Flavor is a good balance between the caramel malt and a snappy hop bite. Hops are very much on the floral side, with very little resin or wood taste. Highly drinkable, finish is a little watery/bland, and overall, this tastes like a slightly more agressive version of their regular APA than a true IPA.

Bottle. Pours thin, amber with a Coke-like carbonation. Nice head and lacing, however. Aroma is bready strawberry-peach. Flavor is obnoxious floral bread with a thin, medicine-like finish. Palate is par for the course; nothing spectacular. Blech.