Bottle. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter flavor with peachy hints. Has a fruity malty piney peachy hoppy bitter finish.

On tap at GABF 2012. Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head. A big nose of citrus and especially lemons. A smooth flavor, very clean, citrus, lemon zest, orange peel, good bitterness. Balanced. Nice.

22oz bottle from whole foods
Appearance: Pours clear golden with a big foamy off-white head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Pine and fruity
Taste: Fruity, grapefruit and pine
A nice IPA

Out of a bomber. This is a pretty good IPA (really a double) with both nice hop bitterness balanced by the malts. A little viscous from the hop resin. The alcohol is pronouced.

Poured up on tap via cask at the Pleasanton Hopyard with clear copper body and thin off white head. The aroma offers up mild levels of malt sweetened like dried orange wedges, some mango and pine hops. The cask pour must have taken the edge off the aromatics. The taste is similar delivering some grapefruit, tangelo and mango tropical fruit mixing with a good deal of sweet citrus hard candy and booze. Pretty good stuff.

Bomber from City Beer. Pours light copper with a slight white head. Very nice, not extreme, resin aroma. Maybe some florality as well. Med body. It is very clean and nicely hoppy - I vote for resin and floral, with some grapefruit rind in the finish. The malt is low key, but strong enough to carry the hop. But it doesn’t get in the way of the hop. Pretty yummy.

On tap at Toronado. Pours with a hazed golden body with some lace left by the small white head that lasts. Aromas of orange, citrus, tangerine, pine and light esters. A slight grainy aroma. Flavors are dry, grainy, citrus, perfumey. Hop profile appears to be standard C-hop. Very light caramel flavor, dry body, lively carbonation with no astringencies. A bit of a carbonic bite.

Draft, City Beer Store. I like Iron Springs, and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and retry this beer, next time I see it. However, this keg was atrocious. It smelled skunked and stale, like a bad macro lager with a tiny bit of hops. The hop aroma was citric but quite light. The beer just had an odd and unpleasant mustiness to it. Mouthfeel was ok, though a bit thin. Taste was bland and had some odd sweet malt notes. Anyway, I can see this being a bad batch, so hopefully my next JC Flyer is better. Edit - These new bottles are a definite improvement over the keg that I tried, before. The beer pours hazy and golden with an off-white head. The aroma is bright citrus hops - orange, tangerines - tinged with pine, spice and earth. Caramel/biscuit malt flavors play a background role. It almost has a wheat spice to it, as well. The taste is dry and pleasantly bitter. It’s assertive with a lasting pine resin/grapefruit pith aftertaste. Mouthfeel is nice and light. It’s a drinkable West Coast IPA with enough of a twist to differentiate itself from the pack. There’s a bit too much bland hop bitterness, but it’s another solid beer from Iron Springs.

Draft. Rich-copper-amber beer with a nice off-white head. Clean citrus bitterness with just enough malt. Citrus aroma.