For us, good living means exploring – the opposite of “comfortable.” It’s not just about craft, but about questing, questioning, transforming “What If” into “Here’s How,” by way of an experiment so crazy, it just might work.
Exploration is the line from local beer maker to World-Class Brewer. It’s a pioneer impulse, and it sets the authentic, rural heartbeat of Southern Tier. It’s how we got here. And by the time others catch up, it’ll be why we’re already somewhere else.
From our wildly innovative founder, Phin DeMink, who’s still a daily inspiration, to the new generation of brewers, thinkers, and drinkers who share our pursuit of what’s next, we keep honing the creative edge of brewing discovery.
So this is an open invitation, to anyone who gives a damn about the difference between a well-crafted beer and a stunningly satisfying encounter with the new. Join us on the road less traveled.
Clear copper-gold color with a medium off-white head that dissipates steadily to an outer ring. Short strings of lace. Piney hops, citrus and malt in the nose. Medium body with flavors of piney hop, grapefruit and caramel malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a citrusy hop aftertaste. Decent overall.
Can for $2.50. Pour is clear pale yellow. Mild fresh, perhaps a tad of citrus, nose. White head fades immediately to nuttin. First taste is like an APA, not sure how this could be called an IPA. It does lack that typical veggie feeling you get with many session IPA. Clean, fresh. In the middle, I'm maybe now getting a little more IPA bitterness. I don't particular;y like IPA, but this one is not bad. I've had many APA that were much more IPA-ish bitter than this. Could use a little more co2. Not as good as North Peak Wanderer, Maumee Bay Summer Stinger, Saranac Session IPA nor Ballast Point Even Keel, but I find it acceptable as a lager lover.
Dark brown wtih large light brown head. Maple syrup, chocolate malt, and hay aroma. Moderately sweet maple syrup, chocolate malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Nice body.
Pours near black and smells of caramel, chocolate, and roast malt aroma. Caramel and chocolate come through nicely in the flavor. Sweet, malty, roasted. Full bodied.
One word: Robitussin (or Tussin if you got the cheaper store brand). I’ve complained about a few other beers tasting kind of cough syrupy. For me it’s previously been some of the red IPAs and a couple hazy ones. But no other beers I’ve had taste this much like cherry cough syrup. I guess it smells okay. It’s mostly boozy cherries. The sweet, boozy flavor is just straight up cough syrup though. I don’t know how they’d think this brings to mind cherry vanilla annd pie crust flavored ice cream. No, it very much does not.
I’m annoyed they released this beer. Southern Tier’s quality is usually pretty high. This should have been dumped. My 3 rating feels generous.
Bottle. Black beer with a brown head. Big caramel aroma with light cookie. Caramel and light cookie flavor. Medium-plus bodied. Caramel and light cookies linger.
7% variation from a can that came in a variety pack, drink in VA Beach. Golden, mostly clear, cream colored head. Piney caramel nose. Flavor is fruity, citrus and mild raspberry-ish notes, a wee bit sour perhaps. Quite big bitterness level that's rather smooth, mostly dry, nice finish. Nice.