Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Gunslinger Gold from Ironfire Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured up at the brewery where it exhibits a clear gold body that supports a thin white head. The light aroma offers up snippets of floral hops as well as a bit of malts. The taste is smooth, light and refreshing with modest floral hops and a light maltiness. It gets into a lime like quality into the finish. Pretty nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured up at the brewery where it exhibits a clear gold body that supports a bright white head. The aroma offers up woody, floral and then there’s some nice citrus hops going on here and there. The taste is juicy and good but seems a bit thin at times. I get herbal, floral, tangelo and a bit of pineapple like hops to midway. The hops grow into more and more resiny and hoppy bitterness toward the finish but it still maintains floral hoppiness. Underneath all of those notes murmurs thin spikes of woody and spicy hops as well. Pretty darn tasty brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber from CraftShack. Pours light gold with a slight, transient white head. Aroma is that New Zealand super weird hoppy thing - melon, fruit, I don’t know. Med+ body. Maybe full. Flavor is light caramel with a lot of fruity hop. There’s a very mild hop burn. It seems a little grapey. Nelson? It seems a little South Seas. Moesaic? It seems very, very fresh. Lucky me! Finishing decently bitter, extremely hoppy. Lovely ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber from CraftShack. Looks orange in dim light, but gold in bright light. Transient white head. Aroma is fruit, but there’s a lot of confusion. Med + body. Flavor starts quite hoppy, shows some caramel support, but then it’s like solvent. Not in a totally bad way. Just that the heavy ABV doesn’t seem to work well with the massive amount of hop. With time passing on the palate adjusts. It gets even more incredibly hoppy, develops some juicy fruitiness, and all the heat is down the gullet. Maybe this is what happens when hopping goes beyond dank. Everyone who gave this a rating below 3.6 should think about going again and taking it slow. Or aging a couple decades and losing some nasal capabilities. :) Side note: burps good Second side note: rating is affected by initial take, but I tried to correct to the way it’s finishing. As the alcohol takes hold, it gets better for sure.
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Synner Pale Ale from Ironfire Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from GT2. Pours crystal clear orange with a small white head that dissipates quickly with good lacing. Aroma is a bit dank, tropical, passion fruit, wet leaves. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter, not harsh at all. Medium body. Nice little APA here!
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed NüHell IPL from Ironfire Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22oz bottle pours with a clear perfectly gold body that supports a near white head of foam. So I thought this was an IPA tick and had I noticed when I bought this it was a lager I likely would have passed on it. The aroma offers up some sweetness, some lagery yeasty fruity esters, tart hoppy grapefruit and then a light peach cotton candy sensation. The taste delivers firm hop notes like grapefruit citrus hops and a peach to slightly mango note. Well behind the hops lurks some soft sugary notes mixed with some lagery yeasty fruity esters. This has a nice bitter hoppiness up front to keep it light and refreshing well above the lagery sweetness. Very glad I didn’t notice this was a lager at the time of purchase.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
On draft at Slster’s 50/50 in Pasadena. Pours a clear pale gold with a thick white head. Light biscuit nose. Flavors of chili. Spicy chili kick. Tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
22oz bottle-shared by jtclockwork-brown head with trailing lace-black. A-roasty dk malt, bourbon/wood, dk fruit-cherry. T-bourbon, roasty-dk malt, spice hop bite.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at the brewery taproom. Pours deep brown with a frothy, beige head. Fair effort here. Deeply roasted malts, earthy bitterness, bittersweet baking cocoa. A bit of dark chocolate and burnt wood, too. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Light warmth at the end with more baking cocoa character. Rich, hefty.