Brew News
August 30th, 2010The release of our 500th Batch – our Quincentennial Batch Trippel – was a huge success. So much so that all the logo glasses as well as the beer are almost all gone! August was a great beer drinking month at Iron Springs.
New Beer Releases:
Helles Angels Lager
This is a classic German Helles (pronounced hell-us) Lager. Light, crisp and refreshing, and one of the only few true lagers we ever get to do at Iron Springs. Brewed entirely with imported malts and Czech Saaz Hops. ABV: 4.7% Food Pairings: Salads, Pastas, Seafood Tacos, & Spicy Sausages
Oktoberfest
Another classic German lager we get to produce once a year to coincide with the start of Oktoberfest in Germany in late September. The Iron Springs Oktoberfest will be released on Thursday September 23rd – the first day of Autumn. Chef Luis and his team will be preparing numerous German dinner specials to go along with the festivities.
A Wet Hopped Version of the Epiphany
What are “wet hops” you are asking yourself? Wet hops are hops that have been freshly picked from the vine, fresh & uncured. This particular ORGANIC Cascade hops came to us from our friends up in Clearlake-Hops-Meister. They harvested these hops on a Weekend and we were brewing the Epiphany with them by Tuesday. We used 30 pounds of fresh ORGANIC wet Cascade Hops and we are looking forward to doing a side-by-side comparison with the wet hopped Epiphany and the regular Epiphany. Stay posted to our Facebook & Twitter pages to see the exact release date of this beer.
Altman’s Alt
Back in the line up for our Fall Seasonals. ANOTHER classic German beer we are featuring this Fall. Altman’s Alt is a smooth, easy drinking amber ale, who’s recipe has been handed down the ages from dear great, great, uncle Jebidiah Altman back on the Rhine in Düsseldorf Germany.
Upcoming Cask Thursdays:
Septmeber 2nd:
Cask of Wet Hopped Epiphany which has been dry hopped with Californian grown ORGANIC Ivanhoe hops
Septmeber 16th:
TBA: Stay posted to our Facebook & Twitter pages!
Septmeber 30th:
For a look at what’s on tap at the pub right now, click here.
What a Long Strange Mash It’s Been…
All of our beers are hand crafted on location in 10 barrel batches. We start with the freshest water from the seven Marin reservoirs, as well as the Russian River, and add the finest ingredients available on the global market. While remaining true to traditions, each of our beers also brings its own unique characteristics to the palate. From the brew-house to the taps, to your glass, without filtration, our beers are “alive” and made with great care and craftsmanship.
Iron Springs strives to provide the finest crafted ales possible using only the best ingredients from around the world, including our own proprietary house yeast. You will always find at least 12 beer pouring at all times. This includes 10 CO2 taps, 2 nitrogen taps, as well as our Cask beers. Everything from Pilsner & Kolsch all the way up to Imperial IPA’s & Barley Wines and everything in between.
This is a brewery 18 years in the making dating back to when Mike started washing kegs for McMenamin’s in Portland Oregon in 1991. This is were the original Epiphany was first brewed-many thousands of batches of beers ago.
Mike spent 7 years brewing for McMenamin’s brewing at every single one of their breweries including running their production facility, Edgefield. From there Mike packed up his Subaru and moved out to Boulder Colorado were he started his medal winning streak at both the GABF as well as the World Beer Cup.
After brewing many a snowy winter in Colorado, Mike found the love of his life and moved to Fairfax California where they opened up Iron Springs. In the 5 years we have been open we have brewed almost 500 batches of beer and we have now introduced our line of beers in 22 ounce bottles.
Our present Head Brewer is Christian Kazakoff, and we’ve never been prouder of the products coming out of our brewery. Read more about Christian here.
Here’s a video of us bottling at the pub:
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