Iron Hill Lambic de Hill

Formerly brewed at Iron Hill Wilmington
Style: Lambic - Unblended
Wilmington, Delaware USA

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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25.3 oz bottle, Media version. Clear golden brown with a few bubbles. Nose is leather, vinegar, toffee and plastic. Medium body with a mild tingle. Taste is sour peach, crabapple, salt water taffy and citrus pith. Quite acidic when purchased, has mellowed considerably and added some fruitiness.

Bottle... Poured hazy, pale yellow with a white head. Overly attenuated with loads of funk and a drying sourness. Some citrus, oak, and brett muskiness. Just overly dry and one dimensional.

This poured a cloudy yellow color with a white head. Aroma was lots of funk, nail polish and seltzer water. Flavor was very offputting, extremely sour and carbonated, to the point where it burns the throat and tongue, lots of paint thinner here too. Blah.

Pours a murky dark tangerine color with yellowish orange hues and thin off wite head that immediately fades, leaving no lace. Funky, earthy aroma with lots of earthy oak and charred wood. Dank, musty barnyard character with some acetic vibegar. A bit one dimensional in the nose but smells pretty good. Medium bodied with a vinegary acetic flavor up front with lingering acidity but it never becomes too harsh. Subtle malt backbone provides some balance but the tart, puckering flavor dominates. As the aroma suggests it’s a bit one dimensional and could use some more complexity.

2008 bottle generously shared at the RBSG grand tasting. Pours a bright, slightly burnt orange. Aroma has funky cheese in the background and some paint. Flavor has notes of nail polish, cheese, vanilla, and peach. A bit too acidic; gets to the point of throat gagging. I liked it even though I thought it wasn’t perhaps the best beer. My final notes read, "shit be strong and harsh but delicious."

UPDATED: DEC 12, 2011 Tepid hazy amber, nose is hot acetic, forewarning of death to come, long nail polish following. Flavor not as bad, and by that i mean its sour as hell, slick buttery, peppery, acetic heat in finish swallow. Successive swallows burn like sin. Pure pain. Santa fe, eat your heart out. This is one of my more eloquent ratings from rbsg, and it was already late in the night... speaks of how sobering this one is.

Bottle at RBSG grand tasting. Pours amber orange with a white head. Funky aroma with some fruity rhubarb-like tartness. The flavor is tart and sour, with fruity funky strawberry and rhubarb. Good stuff.

750mL at RBSG 2011 in Philly. The pour is a flat, cloudy peach orange. Noe is very funky and footy/sweaty with funky peach yogurt that is more trashy and fermenting garbage than fresh and zippy. Very off-putting nose. Taste is sharp with heavy acetic acid and vinegar. Spicy sour character in the finish like pickle juice. Similar heat to Santa Fe wilds. Just not very good. Big acetobacter character.

Massive acetic acid nose, very nasty. The taste is massively sweet and incredibly sour, super acetic, sugary, gross

Hazed orange pour with no head or lace. Aroma is sour yeast and old socks. Paper, sweet brett, and Belgain yeast. A bit thin and watery but it is old.