Paradox Of The Powerful
Southern Tier Brewing Company

 

Southern Tier Brewing Company "Paradox Of The Powerful"
ONE PINT can. The ink-jet date coding is illegible.
$4.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ

Notes via stream of consciousness: It's poured a very hazy gold and orange body beneath a fluffy head of off-white foam. The aroma displays bready malt, citrusy and berry-like hops, and a woodsy earthiness and spice. It's not the boldest of aromas but it gets the job done. As usual, the aroma indicates what will follow in the flavor, and I'm finding additional notes of soft apricot, blueberry, mango, passionfruit, light herbs and spice, and subtle pine. It's a complicated but supple blend that easily combines with the sweetish and bready malt to become almost 'one' if you don't look closely. Looking back, the head has dropped but still maintains a solid surface covering, and the lacing is quite good. In the mouth it's medium-full in body and creamy smooth with a fine-bubbled, median carbonation.
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Golden look with a white head. Citric and sweet peaches on the nose. The deep nose is really nice. Pop of sweet fruit mix, I get the peaches with very mild bitterness. Ok carbonation and a mediumish feel. Quite decent.

 

A-pours a clear yellow color with a white head with average retention
S-pine, pineapple, citrus, peach
T-pineapple, citrus, lemon, resiny pine in the finish
M-medium bodied wth average carbonation
O-solid dipa, but the flavor was a bit ,used compared to the aroma. Worth trying

 

 

 

 

16oz can. Poured out a cloudy, hazy, golden orange color with a good-sized, tan head of foam. It smelled of citrus, pineapple and sweet caramel. Sweet caramel and tropical fruit flavors. Seems like there's extra sweetness from the hop dust.

Can at my ferry bistro.
A) Pours a clear dark gold body with a dense finger of lacing and lasting head.
S) Bright juicy orange, pine resin, white pepper, grapefruit marmalade over cracker malt.
T) Almost too much citrus juice, bright, tangy, and fading in interest as being one (orangey) uni-dimension.
F) Finishes crisp, clean, alcohol well hidden.
O) Super bright citrusy DIPA

$ 4.00 (Including tax)/16 oz can ($ 0.25/oz) from Franklin Beer, Franklin, PA. Reviewed 11/27/18.
“DOB 10/29/2018” on bottom of can. Stored upside down (Can says “Best when inverted before opening”) at 42 degrees and served at 42 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Appearance – 4.25.
Body – Medium yellow, hazy, translucent.
Head – Large (Maximum 6.5 cm, aggressive center pour), off-white, dense, good retention, slooowly diminishing to a 6 mm cap and leaving four irregular rings of tiny to small bubbles.
Lacing – Excellent. As the level drops, bands of tiny to small bubbles form, connected by thin columns.
First pour – Light yellow, clear.
Aroma – 4.25 – Massive burst of citrus as the can opens; this rapidly fades to barely detectable.
Flavor – 3 - Begins moderately bitter with surprisingly little flavor, mostly earthy and dank. Where’s the citra hop flavor? The earthy bitterness has a long hang-time. No alcohol, no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3 – Medium, almost creamy, lively carbonation.
Impression and interpretation – 3.5 - Looks good, smells great, tastes – not so good. Guess I’m just not a fan of dank, earthy flavors, particularly when my nose tells me to expect tasty citrus. The nose and appearance cause me to rate this higher than the taste justifies.

 

 

 

 

 

Picked up a can of this at Julio's.

A - Poured into my Duvel tulip an almost crystal clear dark gold hue with a one finger head that faded slowly to leave light lacing and a thin wispy blanket.

S - Aromas of light juicy oranges, peppercorns, grapefruit, pine, and a decent amount of crackery malts.

T - Taste is similar to the nose. Fair amount of sweeter valencia oranges, decent grapefruit pith, some nice lighter cracker malts. Flashes of sweet papaya, alcohol hidden quite nicely.

M - Mouthfeel is nicely carbonated, crisp, clean, alcohol hidden well.

O - Overall this was a surprisingly solid beer. The earthy pine mosaic was surprisingly muted on the taste, which was nice as it allowed the citra and simcoe to shine.

Serving Type: Can