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Southern Tier IPA

Southern Tier IPA

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An India Pale Ale (IPA) brewed by
Southern Tier Brewing Company

Lakewood, New York USA

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Commercial Description:
IPA stands for India Pale Ale and ours is an American version of the classic style. IPA’s namesake lies in its colonial roots. British soldiers on their way to India dark a lot of beer, but found it would go stale on the long voyages. Meanwhile, brewers knew that by adding more hops, the beer would stay fresh. Voila! A new style was born and it is one we are proud to brew. Southern Tier IPA is a triple-hopped on its journey to your glass for a fully aromatic experience.

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yumyum (50), barrie, Ontario, Canada
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20

Jul 1, 2008  
pours amber colour with white head that dissipates quickly. flavour is what you would expect from an true ipa, not overly bitter. mouthfeel is decent but something about the finish left me disappointed. overall a good ipa. It is a little drier in the finish than I would like personally but while you are drinking it is ok.

 KawaBomber (147), New Jersey, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Aug 12, 2008  
12oz Bottle: Coppery amber w/ a biege head. Pleasant grapefruit hop aroma w/ an underlying layer of sweet malts. Flavor is sweet up front followed by bitter hops that sustain through the finish. Spicy hop flavor lingers w/ a syrupy sweet stickiness that hangs around for a bit. Pretty good.


 Glouglouburp (1916), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/513/20
Aug 10, 2008  
In short: A sweet sugary extra-crisp IPA. Good beer but too sweet/sugary for its own good.
How: Bottle 12oz. Consumed fresh as soon as I got it from the brewery
The look: Clear dark-golden topped by a very small off-white head
In long: Nose of citrus fruit flavoured candies and some coniferous notes. Taste is surprisingly sweet. The beer doesn’t have that heavy caramelized malts body, instead it has that boring sugary/candy sugar flavour. Then comes some hard-barley candies. Fruity hops profile with some fruity hops with some citrus fruits, grapefruits and a little orange. There are hops in this beer, probably a whole lots of hops but the beer is just too sweet/candy for the hops. In the land of over-hopped beers if there’s a brewery that I suspected could do an overly sweet IPA it is Southern Tier. Yet another extra-sweet product from Southern Tier, if these guys could make women…


 GAManiac (265), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Aug 10, 2008  
Pours a clear golden amber with a small bubbly white head that dissipates quickly to a collar of foam leaving spotty lacing. The smell is earthy and subtle with pine hops and a solid malt backbone dominating. The taste mirrors the smell with a grassy hop kick up front before the malts take over in the middle. The pine hops kick in a little in the finish with only the slightest bitterness lingering between sips. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and a little sticky with modest carbonation. This is decent IPA and very drinkable with a subtle, less overpowering hop profile.


rednapx3 (23), , Isle of Man
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
Aug 10, 2008  
Love this stuff. Great Pine Cone / Pine Needle Hop taste, the hops will stick to you due to it having that resin type feel to it. ABV hidden with in this quality beer. My 2nd favorate beer for these guys, a great 6 pack to buy / try out if your a hop head.


jimmay (13), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Aug 9, 2008    Updated: Aug 15, 2008
Very hoppy aroma, super hopped. Clean white head dissipates slowly, leaving some lace. Nice amber, orangy copper colour. Enjoyable!




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