Swipe Light
Southern Tier Brewing Company

 

Pours pale yellow with a 2 inch white head, which lasts. Heavy lacing.

Aroma is grass, bread.

Taste is grassy, soapy, bready, rather bland.

Light bodied, thin and watery, very light carbonation. Semi-dry finish.

Well, it's a light beer. Don't expect much.

This one pours a light golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like lemony and grapefruit hops, biscuity malt, and some light bitterness.

This is extremely light, but that is by design. It works well for me, with that very light juicy and slightly bitter hop character. It works well in the spaces between - there's not a lot there, but there's no off flavors, and it's very smooth.

This is light bodied, and extremely drinkable, with a crisp finish.

This does well at what it's trying to do, and that should be commended.

Poured from a 12 oz. can. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of oranges, grapefruit. Taste has plenty of oranges, light grapefruit. Feels medium/light bodied in the mouth and overall this is a fine job of packing flavor into a 110 calorie, 4.0% abv beer.

12oz skinny can. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a small, white head of foam. It smelled of citrus, floral notes and subtle caramel. Sweet citrus taste with a mild bitterness.

 

 

Medium carbonation, just a bit of a watery feel
Aroma is citrus , orange and grapefruit peel and fruit
Taste is stronger than aroma hints at and for what their going for here it's not bad. Theres also a hint of pine in the taste

I love southern tier brewing. This is a great jammer in a slim can like six point. Excellent light craft beer...cheers!

 

southern tier is doing it too huh? another brewery getting on the low cal bandwagon. i guess a response to white claw was needed, but im not sure this is the answer. this is a solid beer though for the summer, not as light and stripped of character as a lot of them have been so far, and nice and refreshing, i just wish my can was a little colder when i had it. i have never seen these tall skinny cans from southern tier before, maybe trying to differentiate this one, or make it look more like a while claw, whatever. the citra and mosaic are obvious in this, and that might be all for the hops, not going to call the combo boring because its so classic now, but i will say this isnt the most interesting hoppy beer in the game, not by a long shot. real light on the malt, almost pils-esque, maybe a little less crackery, more blonde style, but the hops do have some bitterness which is nice, and the carbonation being so high makes it very refreshing. i think this just used to be called a session ipa, but now we call it health conscious beer, lame. a bit of floral honey at the end, but quite clean. simple but good, id take this over many of the others ive had trying to do the same thing. a total pounder.

Okay, so this beer is listed here as an APA; the can says it's a blonde ale; but IMO it's clearly a session IPA. Regardless, it's a hoppy, light beer with lots of citrus notes along with hints of pine and tropical fruit. Would be great at the beach.

 

 

 

 

 

Light biscuit aroma, pours a slightly hazy pale yellow with a dusting of white head. Very light bodied, mild sweetness to begin with, fades to a mildly earthy bitter finish. An easy drinking beer, and a nice summer sipper.

 

Pours clear, gold with 1/2 inch head. Taste is lemon, lime, and pilsner malt. Light bodied, medium high carbonation, slightly bitter. Loads of flavor for four percent. Great session beer. Lots of great tropical flavor. Could have several of these. One of the better recent Southern Tier ipas.