Iron Hill Altbier

Brewed by Iron Hill North Wales
Style: Altbier
North Wales, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Pours clear light amber with a thin tan head. Aroma has light caramel and fruit...very faint. Flavor has caramel and toffee...bit of candied fruit. Mouthfeel is medium/full and silky with a candied fruit/earthy/roasty finish.

Tap at Maple Shade. Pours an attractive dark copper color with a two finger off white head. Aroma is of some bready notes, light caramel and a light grassy hop aroma. Taste is clean and very straightforward, well balanced with notes of caramel, toasty bread notes, and a grassy slightly bitter finish. Well rounded, easy drinking beer.

Draft at Maple Shade. Poured a clear chestnut brown body with an average sized creamy off white head. Aroma was mostly malts with a chocolaty earthy note. Medium to lighter bodied with soft carbonation. Nice simple clean refreshing beer.

Tasted this at the Lancaster City brew pub. Chestnut brown with a slight head. Malty and medium bodied.

On tap at the Lancaster location. This may have been the most authentic US brewed altbier that I have ever had. Clear light brown with a thin tan head. Smells of freshly baked bread and light grass. The flavor was that of a nice baguette crossed with a bit of graham cracker. Malty yet still very dry. Nice bitterness at the finish leaving a bit of a berry flavor. Bravo.

On tap at brew pub. Poured a deep brown tinged copper with a thin off white head that left spotty lace. Smell of toffee, caramel, spicy hops, and light roasted malts. Taste was a good balance of hops and malt with a light roastiness and a bit of caramel, spice and fruitiness. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with bitter hops clinging to the palate on the finish.

On Tap @ Newark-Murky copper/mahogany color w/a moderate off white head. Deep roasted malt aroma. Rich full roasted malt flavor; grass, bread dough, toffee, & caramel. Very smooth, creamy mouthfeel. This reminded me a lot of an Alaskan Amber, but didn’t have quite the that much bite on the finish. Had some carbonation as well. Very good session brew, quite enjoyable. Alcohol was well hidden.

On tap at the newark location. Poured a light mud brown color. Taste was a hint of cinnamon, caramel, nuts, and a malty backbone. Texture was a creamy smooth. Pretty good session beer

[Cask] Poured a hazy brown color with a thin ring of off white bubbles, light lacing left on the glass. Aroma of roasted malts, nuts, and caramel. Taste of nuts, caramel, smoke, toasted malts, toffee, and finishing hops.

Draft at Iron Hill Media. Pours deep amber with a moderate sized off-white head. Caramel malt and toffee aroma. Caramel malt flavor with a fair amount of hops in the finish. Well balanced and refreshing.