Church Street Brewing Company Fire IPA

Fire IPA

 

Church Street Brewing Company in Itasca, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular
Score
6.47
ABV: 6.2% IBU: 66 Ticks: 9
American Zythos and New Zealand Motueka hops come together in this massively fruity IPA, featuring citrus and mango flavors. A touch of rye provides a hint of sweetness, allowing for a pleasantly bitter backend. Fire is dry-hopped to ensure a pleasant, fruity aroma.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bought July 2015 at Famous Liquors. Nice pour with a frothy whitish head over a bright, brassy beer. Exotic hops give this a slight nose of cinnamon or cardamon, perhaps some of that is from the rye in the malt. Nose is mostly spicy and bitter, with a slight hint of pine underneath. Mild hops altogether, and not a lot of sweetness is needed to give them some balance. Strikes out in a slightly different direction than most hoppy pale ales.

Tried on 03 Jan 2016 at 23:23


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle shared at CBC Clerks - London. Cheers, Dave! Pours hazy gold with a creamy, white head. The nose holds faded out pine and crackery pale malts. Light-medium sweet flavor with some toasted sugars, grain, stale pine. Light bodied with average carbonation. Bitter finish with hints of ash, more old pine. Pretty shabby.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2015 at 17:05


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle shared at Craft Beer Co. 10/09/2015. Thanks to The Wingman. Hazed golden / orange coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is weird soy, grassy pine hop and caramel malts. Flavour is composed of dirty grassy hop, astingent and dirty, some caramel malts. Palate is grainy, highish carbonation. Lingering aggressive bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Oct 2015 at 17:17


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

10th September 2015
Craft Clerkenwell Bottle Share. Thanks to big Dave. Lightly hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and dry with mild fine carbonation. Light malts, modest sweetness. Mild hop skunk. Very mild hop spice and bitterness. Light dry finish. A bit ephemeral but okay.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2015 at 07:06


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle thanks to the Wingman. It pours murky deep orange with a small off-white head. The nose is earthy, burnt pale grain, straw, light plastic, apricot and peach. The taste is bitter-sweet, alcohol, burnt plastic, grassy bitterness, toasted/charred grain, soap and some minerals. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Flawed and a bit messy. ’Tis a shame.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2015 at 03:39


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle split at CBC Clerko, thanks to my Wingman, 10/09/15. Lightly hazed golden orange with a moderate off white covering. Nose is bready, light spice, earthy hops, melon, bitter orange pangs. Taste comprises melon, bread dough, citric tingle, bitter orange, dirty come earthy notes, caramel. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Boring, offers nothing, hops almost non existent.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2015 at 08:12



7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

12oz bottle. Unfiltered orange-tan body. Foamy off-white head. A pretty tasty brew. Certainly has a respectable hop bill. The aroma isn’t that memorable but the beer itself has a lot of depth. The rye helps flesh out the malts, and melds pretty well with the orange, mango, persimmon tones. Pretty excellent beer, glad to have scooped up a sixpack of it.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2014 at 00:22


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft at Olympic. From notes. Loads of citrus with a decent dose of sweet caramel. Very good, I’m gonna have to make a trip down here.

Tried from Draft on 13 Dec 2013 at 21:37