Orange Creamsicle
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant

Hazy orange color with a thin head.
Mild aroma for a DDH beer. Hints of oranges and wheat.
Flavor with predominant notes of orange puree, green resin, mild lactose and peaches. I didn’t get any vanilla bean. Dry and bitter aftertaste.
Medium towards full body with appropriate carbonation.
I found this a bit of a monologue with oranges, but it intends to feel like a Creamsicle given the lactose addition. Not a child memory to me, though, so there is further upside to some. A sorbet with this would be a match, taming down a bit its sweet tooth.

Served in a snifter glass from the can.

Appearance: Cloudy yellow to gold colored body which comes off almost completely opaque.

Smell: Citrus, orange skin with hints of lemon juice and malt.

Taste: Sweet orange juice, well not overly sweet...it's the lactose sugars that are talking. Malty enough that gives you that bitterness you crave offset with the right amount of sweetness that makes this easy to inhale.

Mouth: Slight bitterness at the end with a hint of sea salt mixed with citrus sugar to the finish. Simple but complex.

Overall: Great beer, had his on tap at the brewery a year a ago and totally forgot to review it. Had a few cans left over in the fridge. Tastes like I bought them yesterday. Salud!

 

 

 

 

(16 oz can, 7% alc./vol., EPSICLE 06/20/22; procured a can from a 4-pack on the shelf at Beer Peddlers... poured into a fat tulip)

L: hazy not cloudy, opaque, amber liquid; tall tuft of tight-topped fleeting foam, holding for moments before thinning out into a messy collar; very little lacing

S: wow! as advertized... pretty much straight orange creamsicle in 3D, with the orange accented by some citrusy, floral hops... difficult to detect the alcohol, little edge or clarity to it... potency and expression is fantastic!

T: hops leap out less dessert and more NE IPA-like, pithy, peppery, and biting, juice nectar-y with tones of navel orange, white peach... the sweeter underlying elements first presented themselves with a flash in the finish, but by the second sip and on are established within the repeated flavor attack, soon followed by more of a punchy booze in the finish... the aftertaste is decidedly hazy hopping with only a background bedrock of creamsicle, which does slowly regain prominence as the flavors layer on the palate sip after sip

F: bit of a boozy ping to accompany the tiny carbonate fireworks each sip; pretty much a resinous, rounded nectary, medium body... a bit of residual oily slickness, but it's otherwise relatively soft and sedate outside of its persistent prickly punch of alcohol, bringing some white heat

O: was gonna review a Tired Hands milkshaker instead, but encountered this first, thanks to the help of the dude at Beer Peddlers... overdue for a Tired Hands revisit though (been about 8 years?!)... overall some decent contrasts here, with NE IPA character being most prominent, but the creamsicle and booze in fair balance... can't help but believe I may come back to this for comparison after having some TH takes; this is kinda growing on me?! (1981)

 

Excellent!