Iron Hill Old Ale

Brewed by Iron Hill Newark
Style: Old Ale
Newark, Delaware USA

Bottle, 2004 Vintage. Pours copper.orange/amber, with a tan head. Aroma is sweet malt, fruit, raisins, toffee, and a little chocolate. Flavor is malt, fruit, raisins, toffee, and caramel. Really a nice job on this one.

Hazed copper color with a small swirl of light beige bubbles. Stewed raisins, plums and prunes in the aromas. Light hints of strawberries and alcohol. Full caramel flavors, with lightly toast nuts and mild chocolate. a light mild old ale that just says, here I am enjoy and don’t think to much. Thanks Chuck.

Another excellent beer provided by MIBRomeo! 2004 Holiday vintage. Poured a dark, lightly hazy caramel with a darker middle and a creamy, tall off-white head. Nose was of sweet toffee candy and semi-sweet chocolate with some floral, herbal, and mild pine hoppage.. smelled great! Flavor was of sweet, grainy caramel, toffee, chocolate, and candy with some complimentary alcohol driving it well across the palate. Palate was creamy with moderate oxidation and a couple sharper alcohol points on the tongue. Very good beer! Thanks Chuck!

Translucent and cherry-amber in color with an icy grey sheaf and a bubbly tan crème wrung on top for the head. Butterscotch, peat, caramel cardboard and crystallized ginger roll into brown sugar and then into the nose. Medium-flavored chocolate and cinnamon add their contributions to the dry, English chocolate toffee portrayal. Pecans get dashed with paling chocolate powder. Prunes get broiled and sealed with a chocolate wax shell. Fuller-bodied and splendidly balanced, with bock butterscotch intuitions and malted chocolate balls riding the coattails throughout and especially into the end. Thanks, Chuck!

Milwaukee YeHA! 2006

Thanks to MIBRomero for opening this during the tasting. According to him it was a 2004 vintage. Old ales are an interesting style - I would not mind getting my hand on some more. Most of them are fun, easy to drink and somewhat complex. This one is no exception.

Aroma / Appearance - A one finger off-white head left traces down the side of the glass. Underneath was a mocha shaded body which gave off an aroma of molasses, brown sugar, caramel and baker’s chocolate. Overall it was a little on the sweet side.

Flavor / Palate - The mouthfeel was thick and chewy. Caramel, malts and blueberries highlighted a sweet taste. In the background was honey and a light alcoholic burn. While not extremely complex it was easy to drink. I could finish off a 750 of this alone over the course of one night.

2004 vintage per Chuck. The beer pours to a hazy brown body with a creamy white head. The aroma is old but nice grains, caramel, brown sugar, toffee and almonds. The flavor is sweet caramel malts with some interesting dark red fruit characters. Nice sweet toffee palate. Rich, delicious, great texture.

Sampled at the Falls Tasting: Deep toffee aroma. Cloudy mottled brown with a light head. Flavor of liquid chocolate candy with a dark toffee interior. Mild residual coffee bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel.

2004 bottle thanks to MIBRomero for sharing. Sweet caramel, buttery malt goodness with some malted chocolate notes. Hint of subtle hops. Ruby-amber-brown with a thin off-white head. Wow, flavor is tasty...like malted chocolate balls, intense but subtle. I like that it is sweet but not cloying. Medium full body, creamy texture. Nice.