Iron Hill Cassis de Hill

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

Draft at P-ville. Pours turbid magenta with deep pink head. Nose is tart cherry, raspberry, earthy notes. Tastes full-palated, complex, rich, with heavy raspberry and chery flavor matched with a solid earthy cobwebby basement tone that was outstanding. This one tasted 10 years old, even though it was only 3-4 years old. Truly one of the best beers I have ever had.

750ml bottle - I brought this one out to San Diego to share at the Strong Ale Festival. It was nice to have it watching the sunset from the beach. Poured a pinkish tinged reddish amberish color with a smaller sized head. Aromas of currants, funky, wood-oak, vanilla, and bretty. Tastes of vanilla, oak, funky, cherries, and currants. Nice tart finish. I really enjoyed this.

Bottle from hopdog opened at the 2008 Strong Ale Festival. Thanks Steve. Drank during a wonderful sunset. What a great beer. The best of the fest. Cloudy purple color. Lightly sour. Super easy to drink. Excellent.

Poured a cloudy purple color with small head. Aroma was crazy barnyard citrus. Flavor was much like that malts came out as I let it sit. This beer was very different but really good, currants in the flavor as well. Thanks eagle.

Pour was burgundy to purpleish, some haze, thin head that is continually replenished with carbonation, thin though. The aroma was funky barnyard, citrus, currants. The flavor followed, very nice tart touches, highly drinkable and refreshing on this warmer winter night, while watching the Birdies whoop up - hopefully - on the Browns. Could have benefited from some strong malt flavors, but this thing was quite excellent and worth the wait. Actually with warmer temperatures this thing got bolder malty and then at the bottom of the bottle, tons of sedimentation filled out the mouthfeel - with plenty of tingly and stimulating carbonation. Original rating - not scored, read on - Bottle shared by GMCC2181, leaving me enough for a sampling in a recorked (for weeks) bottle. Surprisingly, this held out ok in storage after opening, slight notes of oxidation showing up but in a minor way under a beer that featured a lot more going on. Pour was violet in color, near nil head. The aroma was blackberries, blueberries, slight off funk. Flavor followed, not nearly as tart as I was expecting, somewhere between Lindemans and Cantillon in a pretty nice way. Mouthfeel was pretty full bodied for a lambic, definitely some depth there. Thanks, Gabe!

750ml bottle via hopdog, shared on the beach during sunset strong ale 08. Thanks Steve. Pours reddish with a pink head. Nose is sweet, rich with tons and tons of currant. Taste is sweet, very nice and big, currant and wow, all kinds of awesome!

Poured a murky, purple red color with a small, pinkish white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of brett, oak, vanilla, black currant, hay, and leather. Taste of black cherry, currants, vanilla, oak, and wild yeast, with a nicely sour finish Totally deserving of the GABF medal.

750mL bottle, from Iron Hill Wilmington. Pours a translucent plum color, capped with a small off white head. Black current is the primary aroma, with oak, hay, vanilla, blueberry, and some wild yeast. Flavor is oak, vanilla, currants, leather, and barnyard, and black cherry. Finish is fairly acidic, with black currant flavor lingering on the palate. Really nice lambic; this is my favorite of the bottled Iron Hill fruit lambics.