Flossmoor Station Lady Columbia IPA

Formerly brewed at Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

Pours golden amber, apparently thick with uneventful carbonation under a thick, creamy and holding yellowhite head. Even after aging close to a year, the hop nose is rife with citrus and pine with only some low dishwater notes beneath to detract. Mmmmm... a rather harsh and pungent pine bitterness to the flavor is carried by a weighty body which, when conjoined with its astringent palate, prolongs said bitterness long after the swallow. While I like a good IPA, this is actually a bit over the top for me to drink an entire bomber (almost like a DIPA), but you hop-heads will be head over heels. ~~~~~~~~ Purchased July 2008 at FSRB, consumed June 2009.

Bouteille de 22 oz partagée lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal chez MartinT. Arôme: Odeur d’orange et de pamplemousse avec une pointe de miel. Apparence: La couleur est orangée voilée. Présence d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût pamplemousse avec une pointe de caramel. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère amertume d’houblons en arrière goût. (Rating #2420)

My Bottom Line:
The diligent hoppiness of this masterful India Pale Ale develops citrusy, resinous and piney melodies that lull toasted and honeyed malts into a state of wellbeing rarely seen in my neck of the beer woods.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam surrounds the misty amber.
-Balance is achieved throughout even though the Columbus
-The mouthfeel is a cushion of which the tongue relaxes instantly.
-These guys really know how to brew flavorful IPAs!

Bottle.

22oz, blue waxed bottle, acquired in trade with BrianDorry55 (thanks!). Poured a medium and lightly hazy amber/golden color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of earthiness, floral, and citrus. Tastes of the same earthiness, pine, floral, and citrus. Some malitiness in the tastes as well.

Thanks to hopdog for sharing. Pours a hazy golden orange with a smaller bubbly white head. Aroma of orange, floral and grapefruit. Flavor of pine, grapefruit, toffee and nuts.

Bottle, from trade with GeneralGao ,blue wax bottle. Good aroma, bitter sweet. Yeasty, grapefruit, floral notes, little grainy, little date, little harsh. Cloudy brownish orange color, ok head, good lace. Bitter flavor, citrus, grapefruit mainly, Medium body, smooth creamy mouth feel, bitter dry finish. Tasty brew, I liked aroma a little more than flavor, flavor had a little astringent streak about it that was a turn off, but not a major detraction.

Blue wax bottle. Poured orange copper color with with white head. Had a nice aroma of grapefruit, with some malt and floral hops. Taste is similar with a nice lingering bitterness. A very nice IPA.

Blue-waxed 650 ml, big thanks to General Gao! Translucent orange-copper with a small, fleeting head even on a hard pour - excellent. Aroma is honey and brown sugar-covered peach, grapefruit, and orange. Flavor is earthy peach, honey, sodden oak, resin, tangelo and tea leaf. Despite the lack of big foam, some beautiful soapy-drippy lacing followed me all the way down the glass. Near-medium body is nicely watery, smoothly carbonated, hop-tingly and dry.