Fathom IPL
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Rotating|
Score
6.92
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Our Fathom India Pale Lager combines time-honored lagering techniques with the hop profiles of a West Coast IPA recipe. The cold-fermenting lager yeast provides a clean base that allows the citrus and pine aromas from the hops to really shine. The result is a gold medal beer with a refreshing, easy drinking character and just the right amount of depth.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Haket. Pours golden with a frothy offwhite head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick sticky lacing and trace on the glass. Smell is fruity with white bread, overripe tropical fruits, moist grass, grapefruit hard candy, lemon zest, soil and pine needles. Taste is sweet and fruity with white bread, mango purée, pineapple juice, moist grass, moist soil, pine needles, resinous wood, cereal, lemon hard candy, lemon zest, orange peal and hints of alcohol. Mouthfeel is round, soft, slightly astringent and medium bodied. Finish is sweet, bitter and fruity with white bread, overripe tropical fruits, grapefruit rinds, resinous wood, moist grass, lemon peal and wine gums. Interesting but I imagine it’s much better if it hasn’t been forced to travel all the way here before being served...
Tried
from Can
on 16 Apr 2014
at 09:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Clear deep golden liquid with small to medium white head. Aroma of citrus, tangerine, grapefruit, biscuit, mango and bread. Taste is very light sweet and light bitter with notes of grapefruit, citrus, mango and bread. Medium bodied with low to medium carbonation. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2014
at 13:03
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at the 2014 Untapped festival in Fort Worth. Pours a clear gold with a slight orange hue and a white head htat dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has a really nice citrus pine combination with resin underlying and a touch of earthy grain. Flavor has a really nice pine and citrus combination as well as grapefruit coming through.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2014
at 08:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at Bishop’s Arms, Malmö, Gustav Adolf Torg
Deep blond color with creamy generous head. Wonderful fruity aroma, mature apricots. Round mouthfeel; sweet malt flavor, but also lean an easy to drink, with a good bitterness level, apricot fruitiness, and soft hop resins.
Balanced and very pleasant.
Deep blond color with creamy generous head. Wonderful fruity aroma, mature apricots. Round mouthfeel; sweet malt flavor, but also lean an easy to drink, with a good bitterness level, apricot fruitiness, and soft hop resins.
Balanced and very pleasant.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2013
at 10:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours cloudy gold with bone white head. Nose and taste of grass, malt, light grapefruit peel, earthy resin and light sap. Touch bready. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2013
at 15:47
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Draught at SBWF. Clear golden, brief head. Boozy pear aroma Sweetish with medium body and sharp mouthfeel. Vodka, plums and pears. Mid bitter peppery finish. Just boozy and sharp.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2013
at 12:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draught (Stockholm Beer Festival 2013) - Amber in colour. Peach, grapefruit and apricot in the aroma. Tangy, hoppy and slightly biscuity taste with notes of peach, sultanas and grapefruit.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2013
at 00:03
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle @ home, purchased from Craftshack. Pours a hazy bright orange appearance with a thin white head. Somewhat buttery, lightly toasted malty, herbal hoppy, a touch fruity aroma. Tangy, light veggie, buttery, herbal hoppy, a bit grassy, light vanila, lemon flavor. This bottle isn’t in particularly good shape which is becoming a theme of hoppy beers that I’ve purchased from Craftshack.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2013
at 21:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample at SBWF 2013. Clear golden with a white head. Fresh aroma of malt, hops, citrus, some pine and hay. Similar taste. Rather crisp and easy to drink.
Tried
on 29 Sep 2013
at 10:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours gold into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving gloppy retention. Resin and tropical fruit aromas. Sweet caramel and resin front to back. Lasting bitter citrus finish.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2013
at 18:06