India Pale Ale
Southampton Publick House in Southampton, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.60
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Balance. That’s what separates India Pale Ales. And that’s the difference between the Southampton IPA and most others.
Southampton IPA is balanced between the hopped-up West Coast-style IPAs and the Old World characteristics of a traditional European IPA. You could say that Southampton IPA is located somewhere between Europe and California, figuratively and literally.
Phil uses three grains and a blend of three American and two English hop varieties to make this complex and delicious IPA. It’s full of floral hop aroma and has fruity apricot and grapefruit overtones. It has an assertive hop flavor and a refreshing hop bitterness while still showing plenty of caramel malt character to balance the flavor.
Southampton IPA is balanced between the hopped-up West Coast-style IPAs and the Old World characteristics of a traditional European IPA. You could say that Southampton IPA is located somewhere between Europe and California, figuratively and literally.
Phil uses three grains and a blend of three American and two English hop varieties to make this complex and delicious IPA. It’s full of floral hop aroma and has fruity apricot and grapefruit overtones. It has an assertive hop flavor and a refreshing hop bitterness while still showing plenty of caramel malt character to balance the flavor.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Milwaukee YEHa!05, brought by StewardofGondor. Unfortunately, the Southampton label is losing some of its luster for me. This was another fairly nondescript product, very basic with the familiar bready, toasty malts and piney, soapy, earthy hops. Cloudy orange body, thin off-white head. I picked up a bit of caramel (you guessed it) in the body in addition to the piney, earthy, citrusy hops and bready malt notes. Medium bitterness. Not bad, but boring, to be honest.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2005
at 18:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
The aroma of this IPA seems to mask the hops being light on citrus and stronger on sweet malts. But the hops are there in the flavor, though not near as forward as many IPAs. There is a bitter overtone throughout with a slightly sweet malt backbone. The mouthfeel as first seems overly fizzy, but the fizz ultimately goes nicely with the bitterness. A pleasantly balanced IPA, but not for anyone who wants an IPA to be strong on the grapefruit, pine and citrus.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2005
at 21:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
22 oz bottle-pours a white head, color is light amber. Aroma is hops. Taste is hoppy, dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2005
at 17:51
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
A rather run of the mill beer by southampton standards - if I had to pick it out in a blind taste taste I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between this and most other IPAs - slightly citric aroma, somewhat acidic and bitter, but with a medium, bready malt center to round it out - finish is mostly hops (cascade, I think) and a hint of woodiness - pretty uninspired, but still quite drinkable - perhaps they are trying to grab a larger audience, but I doubt it
Earlier Rating: 6/5/2004 Total Score: 3.8
Pale golden? I’m wondering if I have a different beer here, because this stuff is quite dark, nearly amber in appearance - the tap that filled my growler had this beer’s name on it, so this must be the stuff - nice lacework here - aroma of yeast and toasted bread - this tastes much more like an English IPA than an American one - lower in the hops than expected, but has a wonderfully tasty balance of medium bodied maltiness and some dry, spicy hops - toasty, with some very biscuit and bread-like flavors - very tasty, but a West Coast style IPA?
Earlier Rating: 6/5/2004 Total Score: 3.8
Pale golden? I’m wondering if I have a different beer here, because this stuff is quite dark, nearly amber in appearance - the tap that filled my growler had this beer’s name on it, so this must be the stuff - nice lacework here - aroma of yeast and toasted bread - this tastes much more like an English IPA than an American one - lower in the hops than expected, but has a wonderfully tasty balance of medium bodied maltiness and some dry, spicy hops - toasty, with some very biscuit and bread-like flavors - very tasty, but a West Coast style IPA?
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Oct 2005
at 20:22
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Note: This is not for the Saratoga Springs version On draught at Publick House (MA, not NY), 9/27/2005. Pours a lightly hazy copper-amber with a small, but firm white head. Light lacing as the liquid recedes with very fine bubbles rising. Aroma of fresh, zesty, cut grass and dandelion greens, light ruby red grapefruit, bits of sweet caramel and honey, toasted grains and some lemon-orange juice. The malt is probably more in control than the hops, in the nose. There is a trace of fresh yeastiness, a bit of doughiness. Flavor begins with a wonderful, creamy sweet caramel malt, like fresh baked honey-white bread, doughy and warm. Hops are grassy and floral, more of the dandelion greens coming through, with a light pepperiness and finally some moderate citrus coming through on the end. But it dosent overpower or overbitter. Nor does it allow the malt to get too dominant. Ultra balanced and with a very fine, tight mouthfeel. Medium to medium-full body and terribly drinkable/quenching. Juicy fruits are lightly noted on the finish/aftertaste, with pale malt flavor done very well to balance. No trace of alcohol anywhere. This is the kind of beer that could get me back in to IPAs.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2005
at 20:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[At GABF 2004] jA yellow beer with a fine head. The aroma is very grassy and hoppy, while the flavor is fresh and hoppy - even with notes of the hop oils. The mouthfeel is very smooth.
Tried
on 29 May 2005
at 16:15