Jenivere
Saltfire Brewing

The third beer I will consume from Saltfire today. The beer is fresh and served in a pint glass at 44 degrees. The pour formed a bright white two-fingered head. The retention of the beer is excellent, dissipated slowly, leaving lacing on the glass. The foam is airy and foamy with uneven; bubbles. The color is SRM 3, pale gold with straw yellow hues. This beer is hazy and has some carbonation bubbles within.

The initial aromas in the beer are juniper berries, oak, lightly toasted malts, and grapefruit. Next, I smell crackers, biscuit, coriander, resin, oranges, and herbal. Lastly, I smell floral esters, dew, and earthiness.

I taste juniper, orange peel, oak, resin, grapefruit, herbal, crackers, biscuit, coriander, malty sweetness, earthiness, dew, earthiness, floral esters, and straw.

The mouthfeel of the beer is creamy, astringent, and dry.

The body of the beer is medium, medium carbonation, and medium finish.

The beer has an interesting profile. The gin barrel aging of the beer mellows out the IPA but adding depth to the beer. The beer is excellent with an odd profile.

Look: Pours a pale yellow with about an inch of white head. Left a nice lacing as it dissipated.

Smell: Getting mostly floral patterns, some pine. Gin barrels come through but not as heavily as you’d expect.

Taste: Really nice hints of the gin on the taste up front, but this gets old quickly because there isn’t much else going on with the taste. Some floral patterns but that’s about it. The gin is nice on the first few sips but this becomes a bit bland as time passes.


Feel: Despite the thick head this is super thin. The gin seems to overpower the rest of the beer, and within 15 minutes after opening this it almost tasted flat.

Overall: Not bad, but not nearly good enough to justify the $9.99 price tag. Needs some work in my opinion.

another distinctive and delicious beer from these guys, they have to be one of the best in the salt lake area, the scene has totally blown up there, its amazing. this is a really cool beer, i was shocked to see it pour so light and crystal clear from the bottle, it looks more like a pils than any ipa i have ever seen, especially one that spent time in barrels. the aroma is soft for what it is, highly floral, and i get the motueka dry hopping as much as i get the gin. some floral botanical elements, jasmine, spruce, and the juniper too, citrus, wet grass, and passion fruit, really interesting but also oddly delicate for what it is. i get very little wood in the flavor of this, more gin than oak barrel for sure, and that works well with the southern hemisphere hop profile this has. there is very little bitterness to it, which makes it a little less ipa-esque to me, but there is a bite from the juniper that kind of fills in. some orange and lemon to this, really simple and light on the malt side, crackery and dry, and very little body for being as strong as it is. a little alcohol does stand out as this warms, the hop profile is awesome, lime and passion fruit to me, really clean overall for a barrel aged brew, unique even as other barrel aged ipa type go, brightly carbonated and fun to drink. i have really been impressed with saltfire so far, this one was real distinctive and professionally done.