Ballast Point Fathom IPL (India Pale Lager)
NOTE: This is now a rotating beer, no longer a year round product. The IPA version is new year round version. Please check your bottle/can/tap list before rating.
Lager meets IPA in a winning combination.
Our Fathom India Pale Lager combines time-honored lagering techniques with the hop profiles of a West Coast IPA recipe. The cold-fermenting lager yeast provides a clean base that allows the citrus and pine aromas from the hops to really shine. The result is a gold medal beer with a refreshing, easy drinking character and just the right amount of depth.
Lager meets IPA in a winning combination.
Our Fathom India Pale Lager combines time-honored lagering techniques with the hop profiles of a West Coast IPA recipe. The cold-fermenting lager yeast provides a clean base that allows the citrus and pine aromas from the hops to really shine. The result is a gold medal beer with a refreshing, easy drinking character and just the right amount of depth.
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Community reviews
Can shared at Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2016, Day 2.
Near clear golden with a white head. Aroma of citrus, light fruits, resionous hops, malt and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation.
[20-08-2016]
Tap at Hair of the Dog, Phrom Phong. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is grassy citrus hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a fresh grassy yeast fruity woody hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish.
Bottle. Pours a clear dark gold color with a nice laced head. Malt and hops spring from the aroma. Slight dry flavor with some hops in the background. Very crisp with that IPA lingering. Solid brew.
650ml Clear golden orange color with small white head . not so bitter and Palate is very light , floral
Draft at The Irish Pol. Mostly clear deep golden orange pour with soapy off-white foam. Lots of messy lace. Wet tropical citrus hop resins with medium caramel malts. Tangelos. Scallions. Persimmons. Yellow apples. Palm fronds. Band-Aid nose. Musty bitter taste. Not a fan.
Can 12fl.oz. @ The Danish (Ulfborg) Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2016, TNO(U)DRBSG16 @ fonefan & Brugmasia House.
[ As Ballast Point Fathom India Pale Lager ].
Clear medium orange - amber yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, grass, pine, fruity hops, citrus, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, pale malt, fruity hops, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20160820]
30-08-16 // 355ml can from Systembolaget in Stockholm. slight hazy golden colour with small white head. Citrus and caramel in the nose. Citrus and pine hop aroma with medium sweet body. Good carbonation.
Draft at Blue Water with fish tacos enjoying the patio weather. Nice amber color with a small off-white head. The aroma is fresh hops and a little caramel. The flavor is nicely hopped with just a hint of something like spruce or gin lurking in the finish. Nice.
Can at Hopyard, may 21st 2016. Semihazy golden body with a big white head. Aroma is malty with tea leaves and flowers. Taste is thin and grassy with perfumed hops and a mild sweet finish. Faint hop friutiness. Falls a little short.
Bottle@Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2016 - yellow golden pour with white head. Sweet citrus and tropical fruity, some clean crisp malt, fruity bitter finish. Nice.
Hell hopfiger, intensiv grasig getreidiger Antrunk. Wenig herb im Mittelteil, alkoholisch würzig.Nett. 9/8/9/8//9
TNOD(U)RBSG16. Clear golden, airy white head. Hoppy aroma, light passionfruit, pine and caramel. Bitter, slightly caramely flavour. Grape- and passionfruit. Has a nice and slightly rough bitter bite.
Can, 7%. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hops, old hop, caramel and a little grapefruit. Flavour is malt, fruit, hops, medium sweet, little grapefruit, caramel, little citrus and a little bitter.
Sampled from can @ Danish Ratebeer Gathering 2016, Ulfborg, Day 2. Clear yellow golden color, small white head. Smell and taste both resemble an IIPA: malts, sticky hops, resin, pine, quite some pine, piney hop bitter, bitter. Meidum body and carbonation. Very nice.
Bottle @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering, fonefan. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are rich bitter hops, fruits, flowers, pine and malt. Long bitter and fruity finish.
Sampled @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2016, Saturday, Day 2
12 fl.oz can. Pours clear golden colour with a mid-sized most good lasting white head. Aroma of strong pale malt, bitter grassy hops. Taste of bitter grassy hops, strong pale malt, good!
Can @ fonefan tasting. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 200816
Gylden farge med medium høyde på skummet. Aroma av tropisk frukt og noe sitrus. Smaken er er frisk og klar, noe søt. En kledelig bitterhet i ettersmaken. Ellers noe furu og sitrus.
Sampled on draft at Hough’s this beer poured a golden color with a medium sized foamy white head that left great lacing. The aroma was sweetish fruity hops. The flavor was sweetish and tangy with a moderate smooth fruity hop note. Medium length finish. Medium body and pretty smooth. Decent.
On tap at The Hay Merchant. Pours a clear copper gold with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is floral and citrus. Medium bodu, citrus, pine, resin finish, very good.
Lukt: Citrus og honning.
Utseende: Gulbrun.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum.
Smak: Citrus og honning.
Hvor: Mellombels Bryne.
Medium: Boks@330ml, ABV@7%, Når@22.07.2016
On tap at Eagle Triple Tap Clear deep orange light amber. Modest fine off white head Big piney hop aroma and flavors. Pretty hefty malt body for a pale lager even granted a double. IPA territory here. Good
BOTTLE. See through straw/gold with little to no head.. Sweet but mellow nose with melon & other sweet fruits.. Sweet crisp malt backbone, fruit hops with melon & honey being prominent, quick crisp finish.. Sourced Cape Cellars
DAAID; Can 355mL., drunk at Rekord Bar. Pours large, gold with a frothy creamy, lacing, off-white head. Nose is moderate to heavy, pine, citrus, light floral and spice. Taste is heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a lasting sweet fruit, light citrus finish. Body is medium, texture is oily to sticky, carbonation is soft.
It’s refreshing to drink a lager with something more going on than the basic water and cereal malt going on. The hop does indeed add another layer to it, but overall it didn’t feel too impressive. Some lemon grass and just plain grass in the aromas. The finish falls a bit short.
Bomber poured a clear tarnished gold with a small lasting off white head. Aromas of straw, earthiness and light citrus. Palate was light bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of bread, citrus and earthiness with a smooth dry lightly bitter lingering earthy finish.
On tap at Ballast Point Miramar. Pale yellow no head. Faint aroma of hay and honey. Taste is sweet and not unlike a German helles. Finish is quick and more of the same. Not a great beer and actually a bit disappointing.
Large Format - Golden orange color, very little head that dissipated really quickly. Slight sweet flavor but with a little bitterness, neither of which over powers the other flavor. The mix of styles leads to a weird taste, just a little to sweet for me.
This is my preferred go to if I can’t make up my mind or do not feel adventurous.
Tasting session @ Budapest
Gold color, almost clear. Big white head. Lots of lacing. Not much aroma. Tastes like a hoppy Pilsner. OK.