Anvil Ale
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant

 

Crystal clear, earthy hued amber, off white nitro head with good retention.

Nose is a mix of doughy, lightly toasted bread and earthy, leafy hops, a touch of floral.

Taste leans into that English malt character a doughier lightly toasted pieces of bread; really nice earthy hop character, with resiny quality.

Body is light, smooth low carbonation, very lightly sweet, clean and nice bitter finish.

 

 

I enjoyed this on tap at Iron Hill in Lancaster served chlled in a pint.

The color is very nice translucent copper with gradually receding almost white head with tiny bead and retention is great with lace that sticks. The smell is slightly fruity yeast ester followed by a hop aroma with mild malt smell -aroma is subtle overall. The feel is decent with ordinary bitter, very light yeast and slight diacetyl with medium high carbonation and slight toasted malt texture with mostly dry /bitter finish with a bready quality.

The taste is very nicely balanced with hops and a bit more hop forward than malt with slight dry and roasted flavor in middle with slight yeast in the back and dried fruitiness with herbal hop taste continuing into the bready yet toasted type finish. Overall I think this is a very good ale, not overly bitter -not outstanding but solid could use more English yeast character but hop balance makes up for that -quality sessionable English style.

 

This rating is for the cask version served at Iron Hill Lancaster.

 

 

Creamy but still medium bodied. Nice balance between malt beginning and floral finish. Highly recommend.