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Iron Hill Granite Gold

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Iron Hill Granite Gold - Golden Ale/Blond Ale

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Formerly brewed at Iron Hill Newark
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale

Newark, Delaware USA

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61.95/5.02.12/5.04%0English pint, Shaker

Commercial Description:
For those who are apprehensive about the plunge into the world of craft-brewed beers (and don't really give a darn about any of the technical numbers), we have this lightly styled Golden Ale. Brewed to give a clean, refreshing taste with subtle malt and hop flavor, this is the perfect starting place before working your way up to our other beers.
 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/58/20
Jul 26, 2005  
Notes from 2004. Gold pour with medium white head and carbonated appearance. Hopcit in aroma and taste, with some honey in the finish. This, as far as I’m concerned, was a first offering from iron Hill, and boy have they come a long way since then.


 PWalk (337), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/510/20
Aug 2, 2004  
An ale that is designed to be the non-beer drinkers beer. Neat idea and it works as most of the people I enjoyed dinner with had one. Frankly for me though the beer ,while better than BMC’s offerings, did not overly impress me. It’s pretty standard in it’s bright yellow, slightly hazy pour while holding a decent head afloat. It lacks any real character on the palate and finishes right where it left off, asking you if you want to try something else.


 Braudog (3732), Dayton, Ohio, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/511/20
Apr 8, 2003  
At the Newark, Delaware location: Crystal-golden with light maltiness in both aroma and flavor. Bit of a citrusy bite, but unnoteworthy.


 Yankovitch333 (612), Chesapeake City, Maryland, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/55/103/58/20
Feb 19, 2003  
Iron Hill started out in a college town; Newark, Delaware. Newark is a college town and there are a lot of bars. So I guess Iron Hill needed to have something lighter to compete with other bars to catch the college kid crowd. Really light and watery. Expensive college beer.


 michael-pollack (2598), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
0.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/52/101/52/20
Jun 6, 2002  
Why would a microbrew waste its time on an imitation American light beer?


 obxdude10 (1545), Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/58/20
Apr 27, 2002  
Not a whole lot of body to it, very light, a very light golden color, kept a nice head throughout the pint, very crisp & smooth I’ll give it that, but just too much like a Bud



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