Iron Fist
Revolution Brewing

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From:
Revolution Brewing
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
American Pale Ale
ABV:
5.5%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.81 | pDev: 11.29%
Reviews:
25
Ratings:
135
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Aug 16, 2017
Added:
Feb 04, 2010
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  3
Dry-hopped American ale featuring Centennial, Cascade, Chinook and Amarillo hop varieties.
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Rated: 3.77 by emerge077 from Illinois

Aug 16, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by mds1101 from Illinois

May 19, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by Mooslerfitness from Ohio

May 04, 2017
 
Rated: 4.18 by FrankShirley from Massachusetts

Sep 30, 2016
 
Rated: 3.33 by scott2269 from Ohio

Jul 08, 2015
 
Rated: 3.56 by MattMorin from Illinois

May 04, 2015
 
Rated: 4.5 by Tanktizzo from Illinois

Nov 17, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by ovaltine from Indiana

Nov 15, 2014
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Reviewed by TheBrewo from New York

4.01/5  rDev +5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
This brew was served on tap at Revolution Brewing Company’s pub in Chicago, Illinois. It arrived in your standard house pint glass showing a deeper but sparkling amber-rose coloring. It held a solid one finger head of tight and soapy white bubbles that showed championship quality retention. This eventually draped into a single sheet of wet lacing around the glass, with a remaining quarter finger’s height worth of a sheet atop the liquid. No haze or sediment was noted, and carbonation appeared to be moderately active. The aroma offered a blend of grassy, nectary, and lightly piney hoppiness, cooling vanilla extract, heavily bittered phenolic character, simple and syrupy sweet pale malts, white flour adjuncts, buttered English breakfast cakes, celery vegetals, wet cloth, and lemony chemical cleaner. The flavor to follow gave sugary sweet citric hoppiness to match more herbal and piney varietals of bitterness. Between this battle was a mishmash of mineral and metallic yeastiness, sweet ethanol, massively soured cranberry acidity, that bitter phenolic wash from the nose, simply pale and amber grains, candy corn, mild rye metallics, fruity zinfandel grape, cardboard, and softly resinous aloe and green grassiness. The body was rather medium, and the carbonation was active. Again, for our third experience with Revolution beverages, we met a mouthful of dense oily slickness. Uncanny!! This sensation was certainly lighter than either Anti-Hero or Double Fist, but remarkable nonetheless. The intense head retention lent well to slurp and smack, with a cool and creamy moustache. The abv was appropriate, and the beer drank back smoothly.

Overall, this was our third and final brew consumed with our lunch at Revolution’s brewpub, and again, we encountered a freshly hoppy and tasty offering. Here, the malts were most certainly left to the backseat flavor-wise, but wonderfully so, so as to allow for the fresh and tangy hoppiness, through both the brewing process and the dry hopping thereafter, to flourish. You get such a nice blend of this and that from the hop department throughout both your tours of the nose and mouth. The blend is unmistakable, but with a twinge of uniqueness in each sip. What malts there are lend a deeper, more amber and rye type quality to the tongue, pulling you into a more bittered and heavier shroud than for most in the style. Regardless, this was a nice beverage to end our visit on, and now that we’ve seen what they’re all about with the hops, we look longingly towards their “Deep Wood Series” to see just how high they can blow us out of the water.
Nov 15, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by Rado from California

Nov 14, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by bfitzge2 from Massachusetts

Nov 11, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by MaxOhle from Illinois

Nov 08, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by BradMacMullin from Massachusetts

Oct 31, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by Chief99 from California

Oct 29, 2014
 
Rated: 3.88 by bcrossan from North Carolina

Oct 28, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by Berg77 from Iowa

Oct 27, 2014
 
Rated: 4.15 by EliRix from Illinois

Oct 24, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by acidreflux from Pennsylvania

Oct 23, 2014
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Rated by kkleu357 from Wisconsin

4.05/5  rDev +6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 3.75
Light golden brown color. Fruity hop aroma. Bitter grapefruit taste. Good amount of hop. Pretty good.
Oct 23, 2014
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Rated by ConradSomm from Illinois

4.25/5  rDev +11.5%
This one is brewery-only. Big hoppy juicy profile like Anti-Hero, but without as much depth. More complex than most other pales I have had.
Oct 15, 2014
Iron Fist from Revolution Brewing
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 135 ratings