Summit True Brit IPA
This traditional English style was originally brewed with extra hops to help it survive the voyage to India. Our IPA is enlightened by spicy herbal hops with a hint of caramel malt sweetness.
3.1
472 reviews
St. Paul, United States
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12oz bottle pours a clear orange/golden with a large off white head. Aroma of soapy hops and English malt. Simple citrus orange hop flavor light malt. Drinkable.
Bottle poured to snifter. Part of winter variety pack. Aroma is half of what I expected. A cloudy amber color with a mild head that is white and clings loosely to the glass. There is just a bit more malt in this than I think it needed. The hops dominate what is left with very mild tones of citrus and bread. The malt skews my palate. I doubt it will last that long.
Aroma of herbs and bread, taste is herbal, bready malt, mild alcohol, will pass.
Draft. Dark gold with a little off white head. Nice subtle brew with lots of fruit and floral flavors. Not bad.
12 oz. poured into a pint glass. Clear, copper pour. Not much head. Bready, malty nose. Some floral, bitter hop smell as well. A malty taste with a bit of hop spiciness. Nothing to write home about but drinkable. Decent.
Bottle. Clear amber color, medium white head. Light aroma of pine and citrus. Taste is malty, subtle citrus. Plain.
Draft at the pourhouse. Pours clear copper with a medium sized white head. The aroma has floral notes and toasted malt. The taste is light bitter, grain, slightly sweet. Ok.
bottle into glass, clear orangish pour witrh white ehin head, aroma of frui citrus hopps, taste is clean crisp hoppt grapefruit , good shiz!
On tap. Served a dark amber color with a small head and some lacing. Aroma of citrus, malt sweetness and a bit herbal. Taste of malt, citrus and some caramel sweetness. Easy bitterness and a clean finish. Moderate body, smooth with a bit of a hoppy. Enjoyable beer.
12 ounce bottle pours a clear copper orange color with minimal head yeasty citrus apricot aromas. Lightbody medium carbonation nicely balanced with a bit of a late hop bite.
funky pizza dough on the nose with other, basement aromas. Some sweet and subtle honey, bitter flowers, tart cherries. Thin and unimpressive mouth-feel.
Yeasty bread aroma with a hint of citrus in a light body. Watery and light upfront with some hop bitterness that follows. Not nearly as hoppy as expected. Pretty pleasant and easy to drink.
Clear copper pour with a 1 finger, creamy beige head. Aroma is earthy, spicy and floral hops, some caramel, light, but sharp tree fruit and toast. Flavor is tree fruity and toasty up front, then a little cereal, tea-like earthy bite, a hint of dried citrus peels and some light nut skin notes toward the finish. Light to medium body, creamy entry, medium carbonation and dry, somewhat biting finish. Good stuff overall, not really the most English-y English IPA.
Bottle at home from backlog notes. Pours a clear amber color with a small off white head. The aroma and flavor have toasted bread, light caramel, green leafy hops, some herbal notes, general bitterness to the finish. There is just not muchto get excited about.
Earthy, fruity aroma. Clear amber, moderate carbonation, 3/4 inch slightly off-white thick head, leaving sticky lacing. Earthy taste, following the aroma, with mild bittering from the hops in the middle and finish. Plenty of malt thickness in the mouth feel and taste in the foundation; well-balanced, plenty of earthy and floral flavor from the hops and bready flavor from the malts. Enjoyable and well-brewed. Much better than I recalled from a couple of years ago when I had my last True Brit. My memory is of a harsh beer, but this one is very nice... nicely balanced, nice hop flavor, just the right amount of bittering to balance the malts, and nice earthy, bready malts. This beer came along for the ride in Summit’s IPA Collection box, and without that, I probably would never have bought another True Brit. Now, I’ll likely be buying this again from time to time all on its own.
12oz bottle, enjoy by 8/17/14 - I don’t think it’s spoiled :) Pours copper orange, whitish head. Barely any hop aroma, taste is slight hop bitter, not much of any complexity. Clear and crisp, not much body. It’s not a bad beer, it’s just boring.
Poured from 12oz bottle, pours a clear copper with an off white head with bubbles and lacing in the glass, aroma is of bread and biscuits with a hint of hops, pretty subtle though, the flavor has a light front end with a sharp bitterness in the finish, light mouthfeel, the sweetness from the nose is no where to be found, meh.
Normally stuff being sold as an English IPA tends to just have way too much of hops of varieties that work best when used subtly. This is actually rather good though. It is something of an overgrown ESB or something like that. I would prefer an equally flavorful beer of lower gravity but, hey, this is America. I will take what I can get. This is a slightly hazed orange bronze brew w/ a small head of fine bubbles and a complex lattice of lace. For a beer where the letters I-P-A are the focal point of the label, this is really rather malt centric. There are some herbal and earthy hop notes in the nose but the flavor is all about the toffee and honey-like malt notes. There is some sweetness across the tongue but only enough to accent the malts and w/ this beers creamy carbonation, it is nowhere near enough residual sugar to make it feel heavy and sluggish. To be honest, I really expect not to like beers that claim to be brewed in this style but this one surprised me. There is a lot of real substance to it. it is very much still an American beer but it brings in the English elements in a thoughtful way.
Bottle. Orange color to the beer, bit of a white head when poured. The aroma is fruity and citric. When drinking it’s a bit dry, but overall has a pretty balanced bitterness, decent mouthfeel and overall is pretty good. Nothing special but solid. 6.4% alcohol.
444th rating of this brew. Bottle, Enjoy By 05/29/14. Nose is heavy crystal, sweet with leaky lemon juice and earthy hop character. Pours lightly hazy golden with a dense sudsy head. Taste is nice and firmly bitter with light grapefruit-style bitterness and even mild pucker, very lightly tart and strongly dry, only residual oily sweetness (from the hops?) seeping in toward the end. Faint biscuit and medium crystal, stronger pine, some caramel character but more interesting is the earthy and lightly gritty hop contribution. Medium-full body is crisp, nice and dank, and chewy with a nice little bit of resin. Worth a repeat.
very average english ipa ....just not alot of flavor....no hoppy bite or citrus rush....very dry at the end....a disappointment for sure.
Pours amber with small white head. Hoppy aroma. Pine, citrus, and hops make up the bulk of the flavor with some maltiness that fits its English style description. Flavor isn’t particularly strong. Not particularly exciting but not bad.
Bottle in the Summit spring sampler. Pours deep golden with thick white head. Nose is very full but simple - fresh cone hops - some sticky piney resins, quite assertive. Flavor is lightly sweet, with a fullness of cereal grains and a bit nutty. Finish is strong pine-like hop flavors with a very pleasant and relatively strong bitterness. Hop resins stick in the mouth after the finish - this aftertaste is possibly the beers most striking characteristic and it reminds me of some of the better British pales I’ve tasted.
Tap - small foamy head, light copper color, fair size fruity (berries - surprising!) hop aroma and flavor, decent size sweet malt backbone, good balance - good English style IPA
January 2012. Bottle. Amber color with a white head. Caramel, citrus and malt aromas. Pine, citrus, caramel and hop flavors.
12oz bottle. Medium off-white head atop clear amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, pine, bread, some orange, caramel, light grapefruit. Taste is moderately sweet, grapefruit/pine, bread, some caramel, light orange. Light-medium body, light resin.
12oz bottle poured into glass. While this has some good hop character to it there really wasn’t much to jot down. It’s a straight forward IPA, somewhat bland, but a good attempt at the style.
Probably not fair that I rate this, as I think that it wasn’t fresh. Poured a light amber with a smallish head. Good lacing. Hops were faded leaving a grainy, bready, and slighly piney flavor. I think the hops were gone. Bottle - Friend’s House - Atlanta, GA
Pours a dirty amber with a khaki head, decent lacing. Slight nose of pine, citrus that got better as the beer warmed up. Mostly dominated by a caramel malt scent. Not a whole lot going on here but just enough to be noticed. Abit of citrus on the tongue initially, followed by some maltiness ending with a touch of hop tartness. Once again not much going on in the amount of flavor but what is there seems balanced enough. A decent brew but nothing I would seek out.
Muddy Orange Color, Good Head, Some Lacing. Malty, Light Body with Hoppy finnish. Decent Brew.