Ballast Point Brewing Company Fathom IPL

Fathom IPL

 

Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - India Style Rotating
Score
6.92
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 70 Ticks: 127
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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7.6/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours crystal clear orange amber with a medium off-white puffy creamy head that slowly dissipates leaving a ton of lacing on the glass. Aroma is IPA - citrus, grapefruit, pine, perhaps muted as compared to the best IPAs, some graininess underneath. Flavor is very hop forward, light sweet, light bitter, nice fading bitter finish. No real graininess present in the flavor. Medium light body. A nice and refreshing beer.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2013 at 18:53

7.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 4 Overall 8
Draft from notes. Grassy and citrusy. A decent amount of lemon and orange citrus in there. Medium sweet and medium bitter. Very refreshing, great everyday drinker.
Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2013 at 08:53

7.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On draught at Harry’s Hofbrau. Pronounced aroma of citrus and melon. Some passion fruit and a sweet malt. Clear pale gold with a white head that collars. Flavor of orange and bready malt with a very dry finish. Finish is more astringent than lager crisp. Massive bitterness and some pronounced juice left to wring from the tongue.
Tried on 29 Jun 2013 at 18:14

7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tap at The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours clear dark orange gold with a large creamy off-white head. Citrus hop aromas. Med + body. Wonderful fresh, fruity flavor. Pale malt background. Delicious beer. Finishing well balanced - and very enjoyable, tho not wholly dry.
Tried from Draft on 03 Jun 2013 at 16:07

7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Dégustée en fût au Farmhouse Tap & Grill à Burlington, VT. De couleur orangée-dorée et claire. Nez de grains de malt pâle, moyen de houblon herbeux, légèrement fruité (agrumes, traces d’abricots) aux notes florales (une amertume présente en arrière-goût toute la gorgée) ainsi qu’avec des notes de pain. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen ainsi qu’une texture moyennement huileuse. Goût moyennement amer de houblon herbeux, légèrement floral et fruité (agrumes, traces d’abricots) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût de grains de malt pâle légèrement sucrés avec un moyen goût de pain ainsi que des petites traces de miel et de biscuits puis en finale l’amertume de houblon revient en premier plan en se faisant légèrement asséchante et bien herbeuse. Post-goût moyen-long et un peu sec, moyennement amer de houblon herbeux aux notes florales, fruitées (zeste d’agrumes) et résineuses avec de faibles notes épicées (poivre très doux). (17 avril 2013)
Tried from Draft on 23 Apr 2013 at 22:18

6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft @ the brewery. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus finish.
Tried from Draft on 13 Apr 2013 at 06:04

7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Draft pour at Proletariat in New York. The pour is golden copper with a smallish white head. The aroma is lightly sweet malt, along with citrus, floral and pine hops. The taste is more hop forward then the nose, coming right away with resin floral pine hops, mildly sweet citrus, and then moves towards the clean biscuit malt flavors. The finish is resin, bitter hops. The palate is light to medium bodied, active carbonation, and the dry resin after taste. Easy drinking beer, well executed to style.
Tried from Draft on 19 Mar 2013 at 08:24

6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
On tap at neighborhood. Pours a clear golden hue with a large white foamy head. Sweet, lemon, spicy, fresh hops. A mellow mix of pils malt and hops. Good.
Tried from Draft on 02 Apr 2012 at 12:51

5.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Clear golden with a medium to large off white head. Aroma had diacetyl, malt, caramel, butter and grassy hops. Flavor had plenty of diacetyl, grassy hops, pale malt and butter. Finished buttery, dry and bitter.
Tried on 25 Jul 2010 at 20:56

7.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Draught at McLoughlin’s. Dark gold with a nice foamy head. Grassy, citrus hop aroma, very ale like and very floral. Smooth pale malt flavor, with bit hops. A bit of pils-like biscuit malt flavor, and ale yeast taste. Just enough to remind you it is a lager. Smooth mouth, mellow and round. Huge bitter hop finish. Very interesting and well done.
Tried on 20 Jan 2010 at 03:39