The New Normal IPA
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant
- From:
- Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant
- United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.91 | pDev: 7.42%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 06, 2021
- Added:
- Sep 02, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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West Coast-style IPA with up-front bitterness, complemented by intense flavors of citrus and pine from an abundance of Centennial, Columbus, Citra and Simcoe hops.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CarolinaCardinals from North Carolina
4.21/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Had a pint at the Greenville, SC location while lunching with Da Boss on 10-9-21 for $7.50.
Beer was served a clear golden orange with a nice white head.
Nose was very nice, fresh citrus was very pungent.
Taste was classic WCIPA, my old favorite formula of grapefruit and orange layered nicely over a smaller pale malt base. Finished with a nice piney bite; 7/10 on my bitterness scale.
Mouthfeel was light to medium bodied and refreshing.
Overall a solid old school WCIPA that i wish we would get to see more often!
Oct 09, 2021Beer was served a clear golden orange with a nice white head.
Nose was very nice, fresh citrus was very pungent.
Taste was classic WCIPA, my old favorite formula of grapefruit and orange layered nicely over a smaller pale malt base. Finished with a nice piney bite; 7/10 on my bitterness scale.
Mouthfeel was light to medium bodied and refreshing.
Overall a solid old school WCIPA that i wish we would get to see more often!
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.27/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I am liking my work schedule more & more with each day! We have gone from six (6) ten-hour (10) days to six (6) eight-hour (8) days & while I am on 3rd Shift (2300 to 0730), it is MUCH more palatable! I no longer feel totally beaten upon returning home & CAN actually get some things acCANplished during the day, including drinking a Crowler's worth of beer for The CANQuest (tm). 8=)
From the Crowler/CAN: "Is it a CAN? No, it's a Growler. No ... it's The Crowler (R)"; "Crowler (R) Nation"; "8/8".
I kind of enjoy the way the tab fights me during the Crack! The lid is CANstructed in such a way that the tab & vent are set a little further back than on a regular CAN + they are also slightly larger. It gave me a good battle but finally succumbed to my superiority. 8=) I CANducted a modified Glug since this type of CANtainer tends to dribble if one is not careful. I wound up with two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with excellent retention which left a load of sticky lacing in its wake. Color was the most gorgeous Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7) with NE-plus quality clarity (button/ filament brightness!) that I have seen for a while & suddenly, I was fending off The Gelt Gang of Croesus, Midas & Mammon, who would have drank it all! 8=( Nose was not "new", but instead an olde skool throwback to the turn of the century when PNW hops were king. Mmm. This is the sort of thing in which I was indoctrinated as a hophead! Pine and grapefruit with a hint of cattiness. Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was knee-knockingly good! It was highly resinous with pine, very citrusy with grapefruit & catty with Simcoe, the naughty kitten doing her business somewhere off in a CANorner. Mmm.
I CANnot remember exactly which beer of that era this reminded me of, but I know which one initially caused the scales to fall from mine eyes - Victory Hop Devil! This was NOT Hop Devil, but she was my first.
Oh man, this tasted SO good that I fully understood why The Gelt Gang had tried to wrest all of it away from me! The hops jones monkey on my back got a good scratching for his itch as I breathed deeply of the hops. Each sip was a cool, dry, pine/citrus revelation as I reveled in its hoppy glory! Praise be. Finish was likewise cool & dry & man, did I feel good about myself. YMMV.
Oct 19, 2020From the Crowler/CAN: "Is it a CAN? No, it's a Growler. No ... it's The Crowler (R)"; "Crowler (R) Nation"; "8/8".
I kind of enjoy the way the tab fights me during the Crack! The lid is CANstructed in such a way that the tab & vent are set a little further back than on a regular CAN + they are also slightly larger. It gave me a good battle but finally succumbed to my superiority. 8=) I CANducted a modified Glug since this type of CANtainer tends to dribble if one is not careful. I wound up with two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with excellent retention which left a load of sticky lacing in its wake. Color was the most gorgeous Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7) with NE-plus quality clarity (button/ filament brightness!) that I have seen for a while & suddenly, I was fending off The Gelt Gang of Croesus, Midas & Mammon, who would have drank it all! 8=( Nose was not "new", but instead an olde skool throwback to the turn of the century when PNW hops were king. Mmm. This is the sort of thing in which I was indoctrinated as a hophead! Pine and grapefruit with a hint of cattiness. Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was knee-knockingly good! It was highly resinous with pine, very citrusy with grapefruit & catty with Simcoe, the naughty kitten doing her business somewhere off in a CANorner. Mmm.
I CANnot remember exactly which beer of that era this reminded me of, but I know which one initially caused the scales to fall from mine eyes - Victory Hop Devil! This was NOT Hop Devil, but she was my first.
Oh man, this tasted SO good that I fully understood why The Gelt Gang had tried to wrest all of it away from me! The hops jones monkey on my back got a good scratching for his itch as I breathed deeply of the hops. Each sip was a cool, dry, pine/citrus revelation as I reveled in its hoppy glory! Praise be. Finish was likewise cool & dry & man, did I feel good about myself. YMMV.
Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
3.79/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Had this beer at the Rehoboth Beach, DE location this past weekend.
A - Medium gold color with perfect clarity and dense creamy white lacing.
S - Subtle citrus and pine on the nose.
T - Light citrus with some sweet flowery presence along with citrus fruit rind spiciness that slowly builds on the back end of the sip.
M - Big thick body that's soft and dry on the back of the tongue.
O - Didn't care for this beer initially but it grew on me.
Sep 02, 2020A - Medium gold color with perfect clarity and dense creamy white lacing.
S - Subtle citrus and pine on the nose.
T - Light citrus with some sweet flowery presence along with citrus fruit rind spiciness that slowly builds on the back end of the sip.
M - Big thick body that's soft and dry on the back of the tongue.
O - Didn't care for this beer initially but it grew on me.
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