Iron Hill Ring of Fire Porter

Formerly brewed at Iron Hill Newark
Style: Porter
Newark, Delaware USA

Bottle from hopdog. Thanks man! Pours a murky light brown. Aroma of roasted malts, oak, light pepper. The flavor is a nice blend of roast, light sweet dark malts, a little oak, and a nice acidic spicy finish. I love spicy food, and the couple of well done hot beers I have tried, I enjoyed. Very creative and interesting enjoyable beer. I actually really liked this a lot!

Bottle from Hopdog. Or more like a bomb. Before the cage-holder was even unwound the cork and cage shot out like a bullet in one of the most impressive bottle explosions I’ve ever seen. Surprisingly, the beer didn’t gush much, but the head was completely ridiculous, and it took some 10 minutes of pour and wait before a bit of beer was even drinkable.

A tasty one this is, though, with nice porter flavors and only a mild spicy burn. The heat hits early in the nose and late in the finish but never in between. A bit thin but an enjoyable beer all around. I love spicy beers and would love to see more of them.

Shared at the first, semi-annual Ratebeer-Tucson tasting
The cork just absolutely explodes as soon as I pull off the cage, it then proceeds to gush all over the place as I lose a couple ounces to the table. I end up with five-fingers of head in my 25cl tulip glass that is a dark tan color. The beer is a dark brown, approaching black color. Very toasty smelling with lots of smooth roast character thrown in to the mix. This really has a huge malt aroma to it with notes of cocoa, darkly toasted bread crust and a roast character that is almost smoky.

Sweet malt flavors hit my tongue up front, though it gets a bit thin feeling & acidic towards the finish. The chile then becomes noticeable in the finish as a light warm glow that sticks to the palate. This is quite roasted, with lots of toasted grain flavors, notes of coffee and almost a touch of salty peat flavors. The chile heat gets more warming the more I drink this beer, even migrating to my lips after a bit the heat never get hot though. This seems a bit thin at first, but does actually have some texture and heft to it. The lightness that was noticed at first seems to have been accentuated / driven by the excessive carbonation.

This is nice, perhaps a bit of a novelty beer, but I like that dimension that the warming chile adds to the deep, roast malt character.

Thanks to Miver for this one. Pours out almost black, lively rocky light brown head. Aroma was like smelling a porter next to a bloody mary. Taste is very interesting, some roasted malt, chocolate and Tabasco under tones going on throughout. I give an A for creativity....

big time gusher. aroma is somewhat muted but seems to have a roasted chile aroma. flavor really dances on the tongue. it is disguised because a minte later it brings a little of the heat. a nice lingering finspish.

13 oz corked and caged bottle shared with Axilla at Lancaster location. Cool bottle. Poured hazy brown in color with a mega size brown head. Aroma of hot peppers and chocolate. Taste of roasted chocolate malts but quickly gets ran over by a peppery heat that nails you right in the back of the throat. There are not many times I’ll come home from work and crave a beer like this, but I’m glad I tried it. It’s original and well made for what it is.

Bottle from Newark location. The cork "popped" off, poured into a glass. Black in color. Big creamy head. Aroma is malt with just small smell of peppers/tobasco. Taste is pretty good. Chocolate and malty upfront with a spiceyness in the back. Spicy hot, even tingles on the lips a little. I wish I ate some wings with this. Medium texture. Overall a good unique beer. ******Update***** Second bottle almost took my eye out! LOL! Still a good beer. This bottle didnt have as much chocolate taste but still was good. SPICY. Very unique beer...

Bottle from Iron Hill Lancaster, Thanks for sharing afire. Well for $9 bucks eh it was Ok, thanks again for buying afire! Nice aroma of dark chocolate, spice malt, aged oak. Up front it was good, you get a bit of the spice(Tabasco) but with a chalky roast chocolate-dark spicy malt wash that increased as it hit the back of the throat. Alone It was a little over spiced on the back end, imagine if the Alc% was increased?! If ever I try this again I would like a good steak or maybe ribs to balance it out.