Southern Tier Hoppe

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

Tasted 4/25/08. 22oz bomber. Ya know, I’m gonna say that this kicked off my DLD vacation. I was sipping on this gem while waiting for my friend Dan (aka The Dan Journal) and his girlfriend to pick me up and head north. Anyway...Bright golden hue with a medium sized bubbled white head. Bright orange and honey nose. Grassy note. Full bodied and hoppy. Mild caramel and burnt toasty malts. All hops in the palate! Rolling hop profile. Bitter grapefruit honey grassy fruity flavors, all in one delightful brew. Hidden burn, you know its there, but not too noticeable. Mild tartness. Solid finish. Damn fine!

A crisp gold body with light carbonation and faint head. Faint malty aroma. Lightly hoppy malt body with a nice sweet malty balance.

22oz bottle. Light orange color with a small white head. Piney, citric metallic hop aromatics, some appley malt underneath. Syrupy, chalky caramel malt dominates the flavor. Spicy, earthen hops, some medicinal aspect. Ruddy malt lingers in the finish, some residual metallic acrid hop character. Mouthfeel is a heavy medium.

Thanks to Tweety for the bottle. Bright clear golden pour with smallish white head. Lovely lacing. Tropical fruits hit my nose before I even poured out of the bottle. Also some slight grassiness and malts, and fresh hops. Palate was surprisingly thick upon my first sip--whole milk thick. Perhaps the light color fooled me into thinking it would be lighter. Bitter/floral hop finish with some citrus and lychee also lingering. An interesting beer.

20080430 Bomber. Palest golden and clear, it looks just like a pale lager only less effervescent than most. The head is small but creamy and white. The aroma grows on me as the beer wears on, but really it’s a simple affront to good sense as the impression is that of a gang of tropical and spruce aromas and little else. Slight mineral and cat pee hints. The body is odd - thin, only fairly effy, strangely waxy and coating through the middle but quickly drying out to a citrus candy sweetness. Flavor is a similar hop affront with emergent floral notes that don’t blend all that well with the persistent cat pee. Alcohol comes through aggressively at the finish and lingering, waning only to a tooth scraping, astringent, raw hop finishing note, massively pithy and oily-acidic.

Great hazy golden orange coloured body with a thin white head - very nice! Aroma of grapefruits, pine, sweet caster sugar, oranges and of course - some fresh hops! Full-bodied; Strong alcoholic flavour up front , then fading to a potent metallic and nutty taste - that hides a lot of the hops! Aftertaste remains strong, a lot of flavours roaming, more strong and bitter tastes than mild ones. The hops are hidden after the smell, and the alcohol plays more of a part than you’d expect! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from K&E Discount Beverage in New Paltz, New York at the end of 2007, sampled four months later on 29-April-2008.

Malty nose with notes of hops and spice on this golden amber pour. Very smooth beer with low carbonation. It was spicy and the hops were present but not over the top. There was a nice warming sensation afterwards.

Bottle. pale orange color. Grapefruit, mandarin curacao and flowery hops in teh somewhat perfumed aroma. Malty sweet, grapefruity flavor with oily and flowery hops and lychee. Long perfumed hoppy grapefruity aftertaste. Good balance, but the perfume annoys a bit.