Summit India Pale Ale

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

Pretty standard IPA with a nice hoppiness. I’m finding that the Summit beers are okay but very thin. This is the same.

Bottled@Monks Café Sveavägen, Stockholm. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is bready, fruity, a bit wooden as well as slightly grassy as well. Flavour is fruits, wood, grass, mild caramel and quite thin. Quite mellow in many ways, but still very bittery dry in the finish.

Piney citrus aroma with some malt present in the background. Cloudy copper/amber/orange in color. Smooth flavor with some nice bitter hops aftertaste. Overall, it’s good and easy drinking. A solid effort.

bottle... pours a deep orange with a solid 1 finger creamy white head.... which fades rather quickly... the aromas get lost pretty quickly... some faded hop notes and deep malts... not the aroma I’m looking for in an IPA... medium body with more of the same... a bit malt heavy for me. decent overall, easy drinking IPA, but nothing worth repeating...

Pour from a 12 oz bottle. Light amber color, light in tast, light in aroma, light in palate - you get the picture. Nothing bad here and a nice brew for when you want omething cheap and light and a little hoppy.

malty, fruity, earthy and tangy with a moderate hop not bite....more a bounce. big rolling two toned head to this nice deep ambered brew. not sweet , it is flavorful and powerful. touch of fruit and tea this is an interesting brew that makes me wonder if this was the original British style of ipa. power packed it almost seems salty.

Bottle. Clear orange pour with medium sized foamy head. Aroma is somewhat skunky, faded hops, caramel. Flavor is a little bit better, slight bitterness, resin, pine. Gently carbonated.

Single bottle. Summit’s beers so far have been ticks for me, absolutely nothing enjoyable about them. So I wonder if this one will be any different as I sit at my computer, glass in hand, bottle opener at the ready. Oh wait, its a twist top. No cool message under the cap like some of the Texas twist-tops. Frothy white head on a somewhat aggressive pour. Very murky orange body. Bottle conditioned or just a lot of flocculent yeast? Aroma is malt first. Kind of smells rich, like a very faded IIPA. Caramel, bread, syrup. Some spent grains. Very mild and light citrus hops. Maybe a hint of pine as well, but the hops are so far in the back of the aroma it becomes hard to differentiate. Flavor just isn’t good. There is a strong flavor that I always associate with wet dogs. Some caramel and faint papery oxidation as well. Some hops, but they are all bitterness, with no developed flavor (early additions). Medium bubbles, thin with that horrible lingering after taste. Another tick from a mediocre (at best) brewery.