Iron Hill Belgian Pale Ale

Copper gold in color with small off whitw head. The taste was like the aroma fruity and smooth. A medium bodied brew. Very good.

Draft at P-ville. Poured turbid deep coppery, going toward brown, with a lingering off-white head. Aroma of caramel malt, some fruit, and some bready spiciness. The taste was definitely Belgian inspired, with some spicy clovey, malty, and fruity notes intermingling with the crisp hop presence. It was very complex.

Draft @ North Wales. Golden-amber color with a smallish head. Aroma is thick and bready with just a bit of hops in the nose. Flavor is full and pleasant - like taking a big bite of good pre-meal dark bread when you’re really hungry. Bits of rye and smooth grain in there too. The best part is that this is my post-meal beer and it beats out the Saison and Biere de Mars at North Wales. Surprising - and very good. My new favorite <5% abv beer.

Tap at Blind Tiger. Pale amber beer, thin white head. Aroma is fairly spicy, with a soft spicy rye character and light toasted malt. Crisp minerally aroma, a bit of banana, clove and a lovely bready malt character. Earthy hop flavour over a spicy malt and yeasty components. Great balance, refreshing spiciness set against pale Belgian malt and light rye/wheat spiciness. Light sulphury yeast component, noble/spicy hops. Lingering clove and banana. A beer I could drink all day.

On tap at the Blind Tiger in NYC. Poured an amber color, nice generous initial head, good lacing. A nice spicey (coriander? Not totally sure.), dry yeasty, bready aroma. Flavor was wheaty, dry yeasty, bready, phenolic spicing (pepper and coriander), a touch of fruitiness, and a darker malt flavor, more than caramel, short of chocolate, maybe some dark fruitiness, odd for the color, yet quite nice. Mouthfeel was hearty and full, finishing with carbonation and dryness, a very refreshing beer. If this is another North Wales IH production, man they sure can brew there!!!