Iron Springs Epiphany Ale

Brewed by Iron Springs Pub and Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Fairfax, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Smells better than it tastes. Reddish brown in color with decent head. Aroma is sweet hops. Taste is too earthy.

Bottle. Golden to copper in color, clear look, and has a beige colored head. The smell is weak, watery, fruits, hops, and candy. The taste is hops, floral, but overall sort of weak. Ok but needs more umph.

Dark amber. Restrained honeyed malt nose. Some good bitterness in the mouth. Well balanced. Light fruitiness in an orangey way. Pretty simple but pleasantly drinkable.

Tap at Iron Springs. Copper pour with a clingy white head. Nose is caramel malt with citrus hops - same in the taste.

Bomber poured into a tulip glass. Pours a deep ruby-copper, hazy enough to be opaque, with a small off-white collar of head. Aroma is crystal malty with a slight toasted note and some resiny citrus hops. Flavor is much the same with a classic iced tea crystal malt base and a rather subdued herbal hop profile. Pretty typical amber but too light on the hop flavor.

Bottle. Copper beer with a tan head. Malt and grapefruit aroma with light toastiness. Grapefruit and toasted malt flavor wioth light earth. Medium bodied. Light earth and grapefruit lingers with toasted malt.
Earlier Rating: 10/29/2010 Total Score: 3.6
Draft. Copper colored beer with a nice cream colored head. Grapefruit aroma. Malt and toasted malt flavor with grapefruit. Medium bodied. Malt lingers with grapefruit and light pine.

Bottle 650 ml
Aroma sweet malts, west coast hops, citrus like top. 7-
Appearance hazed amber-red with creamy medium top. 3+
Flavor and Palate : medium bodied ale. Chewy in texture with dry sides, top with bitterness. Straight hop sided ale , not very complex. 12+/20

Ken’s bottle. I liked this one, think its over 60 IBU which went with a strong malting tomake a most drinkable beer. Average mouthfeel. Cloudy reddish tinged body, three-eighth inch head, and lacey with lace rings. Decent hoppy flavour, a little complex, and a dry aftertaste.

07-Mar-10 (22-oz bottle: Purchased 09-Feb-10 for $3.99 at Ledger’s Liquor in Berkeley, CA) This odd-colored, pinkish-red beer is hazy in appearance and pours an inch-tall, off-white head that settles to a wafer-thin layer. A significant number of carbonation streams rise quickly through the beer, supporting the head retention. The nose is mildly caramely and vaguely hoppy, but there is a bit of mustiness and a moderate sourness like vinegar and unripe peach that is unlikely to be intended, so this bottle seems to be showing signs of infection. On the palate, the dusty hops are bright citrus and pine with a moderate bitterness, but a prominent apple skin flavor and mild sourness all but buries the caramely malts. Carbonation is medium-high and the mouthfeel is very dusty and chalky, with a very dry and somewhat astringent finish. Not a good beer due to the infection, but infected bottles are the brewery’s fault, so this is what it is. A new sample is in order though.

Rating from my backlog. On tap at Anchor & Hope in SF. Amber pour with beige lacing. Smells and tastes of hops and daffodils. Odd, but not bad.