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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home. Orange golden beer with white soapy head. Nose is lovely tropical fruits and pine. Tastes of bitter sticky pine, apple, mangos, apricot, doughy, and dried leaves. Slight syrupy palate. Dry aftertaste with lingering tropical fruits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2014
at 18:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Clear golden color, medium white head. Nice aroma of mango, pineapple. Taste has lightly bitter tropical fruit and iced tea. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Dec 2014
at 12:22
6/10
Tried
on 12 Nov 2014
at 13:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewpub in Miramar
Clear golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is floral and earthy. Taste is grassy, floral, dusty and grainy
Decent
Clear golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is floral and earthy. Taste is grassy, floral, dusty and grainy
Decent
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Nov 2014
at 22:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Location: 22 oz bottle from Syosset Beverage, 10/15/14
Aroma: The nose is doughy malt and a pretty hoppy, grapefruit rind, and some floral notes
Appearance: It pours cloudy gold-orange color with a white head that leaves fairly coating
Flavor: Tastes fairly bitter, citrus/grapefruit rind more so than fruit, with a balancing doughy malt
Palate: The body is medium, it has a soft carbonation, smooth mouthfeel, and a rather dry close
Overall Impression: I'm guessing we are getting close to IPL being its own style on RB? Anyway, this is a quite dry beer. The ctirus/grapefruit flavor is much more on the rind side than the fruit side. Quite dry/bitter.
Aroma: The nose is doughy malt and a pretty hoppy, grapefruit rind, and some floral notes
Appearance: It pours cloudy gold-orange color with a white head that leaves fairly coating
Flavor: Tastes fairly bitter, citrus/grapefruit rind more so than fruit, with a balancing doughy malt
Palate: The body is medium, it has a soft carbonation, smooth mouthfeel, and a rather dry close
Overall Impression: I'm guessing we are getting close to IPL being its own style on RB? Anyway, this is a quite dry beer. The ctirus/grapefruit flavor is much more on the rind side than the fruit side. Quite dry/bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2014
at 19:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Chrisso’s May 2014 tasting 25/05/2014. Thanks to Chris! Aroma is candied pine, dank, spicy orange peel hops. Clear golden coloured pour with a lasting white head. Flavour is caramel / honey malt ascents, pine resin. Really nice clean ferment. Lingering spicy hop. Palate is chewy, resin hop, fresh on the tongue. Finish is medium dry. Very clean and drinkable with good hop depth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2014
at 13:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Some light citrus brings this together for a decent drink. Pours golden with ok head and lacing. Some citrus, and a touch of trashy aroma in finish with some bitterness - perhaps I just don’t prefer lagering. Comes together well though, for style. Tap at Churchkey.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Sep 2014
at 16:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at Daily Growler UA. The beer pours a slightly hazy straw-gold color with a thin white head that dissipates quickly to an outer ring. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of tropical fruits, herbal hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of grapefruity hops and pineapple, toasted malt and pine. The finish is moderately bitter with a fruity hops aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Sep 2014
at 13:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
4 oz draft pour at ChurchKey. Clear golden orange with off-white head. Aromas of tropical fruit, lemon lime, sweet peach candy, candied fruit. Tastes of tropical fruit, citrus, light floral notes, caramel and malt. Medium body with a dry finish. Semi-malty mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Sep 2014
at 18:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the chriso May 2014 tasting - London. Pours perfectly clear gold with a creamy white head. Great aroma with notes of tangerine, grapefruit and pale bread. Medium sweet flavor with light bitter citrus rind, some herbal hops, anise, ripe citrus, white bread. Light to medium bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Sweet finish, lightly bitter, with mellow marmalade, ripe orange, grapefruit rind. Very decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2014
at 23:34