Southern Tier Brewing Company
Regional Brewery
in Lakewood,
New York,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
Artisanal Brewing Ventures
Associated with 3 Venues
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.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
clear golden pour with next to no head. Aroma is quite nice, some really juicy raspberry. Flavour is quite disapointing though, there pretty much isn’t any. I’m getting an odd sour note, but seriously that’s about it. The body is watery, and extremely bland, not very good at all.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
jet black pour with a tiny coffee head that didnt last very long. Aroma is a slap in the face, loads of rosty malt, and the typical full bodied oatmeal aroma. Loads of chocolate, some smoke, mollasses, and soy sauce. Flavour is very full bodied, lots of roastiness, some chocolate, and a big boozy note. the alcohol isvery present, and add lots of warming. A very very nice winter beer, so rich.............its like a bloody meal.
Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed Porter from Southern Tier Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Aroma is very roasted, some nice coffee notes, and some bitter chocolate, even some slight dark fruit notes. Flavour is very roasty, lots of nice malt, and a nice hop bit in the end adding soem nice bitterness. A very well made, and easy drinking porter.
Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed IPA from Southern Tier Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
great citrus aroma, loads of grapefruit, oranges, lemon, mandarin, just a wicked aroma. The flavour is again very hoppy, but not very bitter tough, its a sweet IPA, no super bitter, and the malt is a little lacking, its there but not as much as i would like. but its very hoppy, and the citrus notes are what i like, and this is a great IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
nice offwhite head, aroma is ALL citrus, and hops, but has a huge piney aroma. flavour is very much orange, grapefruit, and lots pine. finish is as expected quite bitter. a nice IIPA, but i’m finding its also kinda sweet, a little too sweet. overall a good IIPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
bottle courtesy of HogTownHarry! Pours jet black, looks like motor oil tiny little brown head. aroma is obviously big coffee, chocolate, and i’m getting some soy sauce? flavour is deep coffee, chocolate, and some smoke in there. Its really quite sweet. palate is uber thick! this is really nice stuff!
ben4321 (11522) reviewed Juice Jolt from Southern Tier Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5
12 oz can from Wegmans, 2/25/25. Clear orange color, light beige head. Orange juice, candied orange, a little lemon pledge, and some dish soap. Kind of weird, honestly. Like a mediocre OJ mixed with an overly citrusy dish soap. Flavor is similar. Drinks kinda thin, like watered down OJ. I'm sensing a theme, and it's not a very good one. How the hell should I score this?
7 / 5 / 4.5 / 5 / 4.5
cheap (9533) reviewed Juice Jolt from Southern Tier Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 2.5
hazy pale from a 1$ can. no head. nose is slightly acrid orange juice, permeated the whole room, whew. yes, ipa bitter fer sher but there is a strong orange juice flavor in this, and i'm not talking blood orange. it's the orange you get from a jug of plain old orange juice. quite different experience for me considering it is an ipa. ok, in the middle, the ipa roots are cutting thru. not sure if i like orange juice flavored ipa its kind of a turn off. near the end i'm starting to get a tad of warming sensation down the throat and into the gullet. does have some decent carbonation in there, but it could use more considering this is quite a fruit juice experience.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Old rating from 2017 - 355ml bottle brought back from NYC. Pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of orange, grapefruit, melon, spruce, herbs, earth & hops. Medium body. Rich crisp finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 7
12 ounce bottle from Festival Darboy, 2/19/25. Slightly hazy amber, medium tan head, average retention. Aroma of strong artificial strawberry, vanilla. Taste is strawberry candy, vanilla, pale malt. Nothing natural here. Meh.