Five seats left for our December 2nd beer dinner. Email me if you want to see the menu. Chrisl@ironhillbrewery.com

Iron Hill beer will be featured at Michael Alan’s Barber shop tonight. Make an appointment for a shave and a beer. Michaelalansbarbers.com

Those of you who have met me know that I’m not a real big haircut kind of guy.  But a visit to Michael Alan’s could be what it takes to get me in the barber chair.  One of our bartenders (Jon) and my assistant Jeff have both paid visits to this shop in the past couple weeks and have both come back raving about it.  Now this isn’t your usual barber shop.  You can get a haircut there, but you can also shoot a game of pool, browse their humidor from an overstuffed leather chair, watch the game on directTV and have a complimentary coffee or beer while you wait for your straight-razor and hot-towel shave.  That’s right, beer with your haircut.  This Wednesday evening the beer just happens to be from Iron Hill.  They’ll be pouring growlers of our Pumpkin Ale, Vienna Lager and Ironbound Ale.  I’d suggest making an appointment.  These guys fill up fast.  Of course it wouldn’t hurt to just try walking in either.  Even if they’re full-up, the worst that would happen is you’d check the place out, have a great beer and leave with your locks intact.

Cheers,

Chris

India Black Ale returns. On tap tonight! Touch of roast to compliment an intense American hop nose and firm but pleasant bitterness. 7.6%

A couple of months ago Jeff and I caught wind of something called Triple Hops Brewing.  Since then we’ve been dying to try it but weren’t quite sure how we’d go about doing it.  There’s one brewery that has a unique triple hops brewing process but we were pretty sure they weren’t sharing their secrets.  Guess what?  All of their secrets are right there on their website!  Unbelievable!  Don’t these guys know that just about anyone with a computer can get on the world wide web and steal their secrets?  Well now we’re keen to their process.  Not so unique any more is it guys?  We’ve tried it in our Black IPA to see if we could make it taste “insanely great.”    We added two pounds of Columbus hops to create flavor and aroma (and we always thought aroma came from the last hops, DUH!), then we added five pounds of Chinook hops to develop balance and get the right amount of body, then we added another five pounds of Columbus to lock in the taste by enhancing the foamy head.  We even considered taking it a step further and using 26 pounds of whole leaf Horizons in the hop back and another two pounds of Centennial in the fermenter but we were afraid that might make the beer too filling.  It wasn’t easy going from our usual brew day to a 3-step brewing process but we’re hoping it will pay off. Well the beer will be on tap on Thursday night, so you can see for yourself how well we interpreted this groundbreaking process.  If you like it maybe you’ll drink it Thursday, Friday, and every day for the rest of your naturally born life!  Ok, enough blogging for me.  I’ve got to do some more internet research and see if I can increase the drinkability of my beer too!

SARCASM ALERT!!!!! (We did not steal proprietary information from Miller or any other megabrewery.  We are not forging headlong into the future with a cutting edge brewing technique.  This is how micro brewers and home brewers have been making beer since we’ve been brewing beer.)

Cheers,

Chris

The beer engine is back in business. Pig Iron Porter on cask.

The Quadfather (Dark Belgian Strong Ale) and Imperial Schwarz (light bodied version of a nitrogenated Baltic Porter) on tap as of ….. Now!

Just over a month after opening, Iron Hill, Maple Shade had the largest mug club in the company.  Either that means that New Jersey residents know a value when they see one or just that New Jersey is brimming over with rabid beer fans.  When our General Manager, Greg Bond realized how quickly our mug club was growing he set the audacious goal of reaching 1,000 members by Thanksgiving.  That’s something that’s never been done in Iron Hill history.  Well we did it last night.  Jerry and Debbie signed up and became Iron Hill’s 1000th and 1001st members.  To celebrate Greg and I presented them with a basket full of Iron Hill Schwag, a gift card and a growler of their choice (Imperial Pumpkin, these guys don’t mess around!)  Welcome  folks!  We’re glad to have you.

Cheers,

Chris