Southern Tier LIVE..

Live is one of the best APA's I've ever tasted...

 

Very hop forward and in the back. It reminded me of Zombie Dust, just with different hop ingredients.

 

Americans bigging up a 5.5% pale ale.

You don't see that on here every day.

 

Love Live. Can't wait to crush a sixer on the porch this summer.

 

I finished a sixer of this last night. I liked it enough, but I think it's one of those new beers that accomplishes it lower-ABV by neglecting malt and filling the void with a whole bunch of hops. The resulting beer is still had good flavor (and great hop aroma), but I found it kind of "hollow."

 

Depends on what you're used to. I've not had Live yet but I'd still expect decent body at 5.5%. It'll be interesting to see how it stacks up against similar UK beers where this is one of the most popular craft styles.

 

Definitely agree with LIVE being a wonderful APA. I too am a bit leery when it comes to Southern Tier's brews but this one is fantastic. And is that a bit of citra I detect in the hop bill?

 

I'm glad someone put into words what I thought of this brew (it's a perfect description based on my experience). It was tough for me to figure out why I wasn't blown away by it...because it certainly had a dominant hop presence for an APA. Also, I may have felt slightly underwhelmed because it was $10 a sixer.

Even though I have a bunch of tasty brews in the fridge I need to finish, I now feel compelled to compare LIVE to two of my favortie APAs--SNPA and Victory Headwaters. Haven't had those since last summer.

 

I'm in complete agreement. Not a bad beer, but hollow on the malt flavor and not enough to support the hops for me.

 

I must get a six of this to try. I'm not a huge ST fan, but it's got to be better than Phin & Matt's which is the poster boy of ordinary.

 

Peeper is great. My second favorite APA.

 

I thought so too, Live is a great refreshing beer. Definitely worth picking up again and on a regular basis

 

I tried it when it came out in bombers last year. Thought it was similar to the plethora of SNPA knockoffs out there - dime a dozen.

 

I am 99% positive that's amarillo. I don't get crazy tropical in the aroma, I get overwhelming orange - a signature to the amarillo hop. Amarillos are a personal favorite of mine, which is why I really like this beer.

 

Really good beer.
I wish they would change up their packaging though. It's easy to pass over.

 

This beer is pretty awesome; I got it in a bomber back in December and thought it was perfect for the ABV and style. Ended up putting a pretty in-depth review on my page here. Great price, too... $4 bombers are always nice.

 

Could def be amarillo but I always get a ton of citrus in citra and not much tropical..... i tend to compare the citra hops to candied oranges. Regardless..... it's a great beer and a surprise to me considering I don't gravitate to much from Southern Tier.

 

I picked up a six of this last night. It was decent. I found it to be lacking depth and too one dimensional personally. I feel like over hopping these low abv beers is doing them an injustice. People are buying them up, so maybe it's just me.