The good old US of A, land of the triple decker huge over
the top big as Texas everything, well, that is everything except their corporate breweries with
their pissy yellow ales and lagers. How can the land of supersize me have such
insipid low alcohol no flavor beers with as much desire as brown toilet paper?
I’d sooner buy 12 frosty pigs!
Something carrying a bit more of a punch is American craft brewer ‘Iron
Fist’ where all their brews go gangbusters. These brewsters are the first to
agree with me saying “Put the pack of light lager back with all its buddies and
rule your taste with an Iron Fist!” Big
talk but these guys can back up their claims with some knock out swigs.
Their ‘Velvet Glove’ is one smoooth imperial oatmeal stout. This
decadent stout pudding is like beer butter possessing rich silk chocolate
coffee tiramisu flavors. It floats like a butterfly and the 9% abv stings you
like a bee.
A rebellion from an iron fist could be asking for trouble but Iron Fists
‘Imperial Rebellion Farmhouse Ale’ is nowhere near revolting. The
rebellious part is that it’s a Belgian style ale brewed with local flavour
featuring Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops giving a huge zesty fruit flavour
counter punched with jabs of toffee malt. Weighing in at 9.3% it’s a real head
banger so you might ultimately see the floor coming at ya.
Another Belgian style only with a Californian twist is the
‘Dubbel Fisted’. Coool, this means a glass in each hand right? Aroma and flavour blows striking from all
directions with this bad boy. Smells of malted over ripe fruit, and tastes like
tart port plum cherries, with the twist being the caramel upper cuts to subdue
the tartness. This brew tastes like a Belgium ale only malty and is out for the
count at 8.1%
So, a unanimous decision, go a round with these feisty hard
hitting Yankee brews, and withstand flavour TKO’s bigger than Texas, then get
supersized!
Denis ‘sometimes PC but always DC’, Cooper
