Flossmoor Station Ahtanumous IPA

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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UPDATED: SEP 20, 2008 [Bottle olive-green wax] Pours a slightly hazy orange amber with a thin white head. Big grapefruit, resin, piney, caramel, peach aroma. First taste is super dry and earthy bitter, followed by sweet honey/sugar, slightly toasty/biscuit with lots of piney/resin earthy hops. The earthiness is balanced really well which usually doesn’t happen with such bitter hops. Very sticky stuff, maybe too sugary, but this is a great IPA.

Had this fresh at my home brewpub both from the tap and on cask. Ya know, I’m startiung to get sick of making comments like this, but brewers Matt and Andrew have really assumed ownership of the IPA style. They don’t merely "Hop Bomb!" you, but add a degree of balance and a blending of hop and malt truly that satisfy this Hop-Head. This baby is slightly hazed and amber of body with a sustained head... both versions. The aroma has plenty of citrus hops - grapefruit and lemon zest, mainly - and a solid caramel sweet base supporting it. The flavor tips towards the hops (Yeah!) and has the addition of pine and a quiet earthiness. Nice dry & bitter finish. Another winner here.

Flossmoor Station, Flossmoor, IL

UPDATED: SEP 9, 2008 Bottle courtesy of Inkubus27! Thanks! Brewers whim series, olive green wax. Muddy amber pour with a white head and a single line of lace. Fresh wet hop aroma. Resinous hoppy flavor and a lingering bitter finish. Notable caramel/brown sugar flavors

On tap at Flossmoor Station and served in a shaker. This IPA poured a slightly hazy amber with a one-finger thick head of beige foam that hung around for a spell. Some decent lacing was left behind. The aroma of the beer was made up of sweet, juicy fruit hops and lightly toasted caramel. The flavor was also quite fruity, containing fresh citrus and peach. A solid caramel malt backbone held things together. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied with light carbonation. Another solid IPA.

Hazy caramel with light but foamy off-white head / Light malty, fruit nose / LIght to medium body, with sweet malts offset by big, fresh hops, and with good finish / Flavors of caramel, fresh pine, cream, aged cheese?, and grapefruit / A lovely, fresh, and delicate ipa.

Bottle. Aroma of some toasty malt, a bunch of pine, some citrus. Flavor has a huge, rich, fruity malt base, but never so rich as to overrided the hops. Never really had such an intensely malty IPA that still retained a certain hop zing. Very tasty, these guys know their IPAs!

Bottle courtesy of inkubus27. Pours a light brown with a small foamy light tan head. Aroma of lots of bitter piney hops and some citrus. Flavor of the same piney hops with a nice caramel malt body. A little sweeter than the other Flossmoor IPAs. Some tropical fruits start to come out as the beer warms (nice mango and passion fruit!). Wow, this is tasty!! I love the sweetness/hops balance. Probably my second favorite IPA after Two Hearted. Awesome, just awesome!

cask at the maproom.... mildy tranparent appearance. yellow and medium brown hues with a fluffy/frothy just off-white head.... aroma was light pine and earthy hops.... flavors had an intense earthy grassy hop quality to it which lends itself to a more subdued earthy bitterness. somewhat of a subordinate malt backing. smooth and creamy mouthfeel. would llike to try this one out of the bottle to compare.

Olive wax bomber bottle. I get to put this beer on the ratings map; and with a bottle I bought at the brewpub (no time to sit and enjoy, I’m afraid). Pours dark amber, big amber head, and I thought I caught some greenish overtones??? Shows hazy. Two weeks from bottling, this has a joyous pinecone hop smell, like a fresh Christmas wreath. (THAT’S why I should cellar these IPAs away, but will I learn?) Taste is all sticky with more resiny hops. But not too bitter. I looked up Ahtanum hops and found that’s just what they’re for. So I get a big nose of pine and grapefruit over a bed of darker-than-normal crystal malts. Having moved away from the South Suburbs, I may start missing some of Matt & Andrew’s brews that made me one of this site’s most loyal raters of a single brewer. But not this time. I’m a happy boy! And to think I got a whole bomber bottle worth!

22oz bottle. olive wax. thanks to holdenn for bringing this back from the brewpub. pours hazy golden with white head. earthy, leathery, and piney hop aroma. fruity, pine, earhty, and citrus hop flavors with some alcohol rounding it out nicely. body is a hair heavy. another ipa winner from Flossmoor. a bit similar to HopSolution but much better. dag if this was in a 6 pack i would have to call in sick for 2 weeks.