Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant (Iron Hill), announces the release of Tropical Blast Gose, which brings together bright, bold tropical citrus flavors and a unique tart and salty finish to create the ultimate, samba-like flavor dance for the palate. Promising to excite with the brightness and refreshing sweet and slightly sour notes of freshly squeezed blood orange and pineapple up front, it boasts a subtly salty, refreshing finish that makes the drinker reach for another sip.
Tropical Blast Gose is available in 16-ounce cans at most Iron Hill Restaurant & Brewery locations throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, for $5.75 for a single 16-ounce can and $15.50 for a four-pack to take home and enjoy or pick up on the way to the beach or a barbecue.
Born out of the passionate artistry of Iron Hill’s creative and visionary brewers, the gose blends malts, hops and tropical juices to create a distinctly vibrant and light-bodied crave-able session beer with a 4.2% ABV. The sour-salty balance makes it the perfect pairing to the fresh, seasonal dishes to try at home ranging from a seafood ceviche with mangos to blackened shrimp tacos with habanero pineapple salad or a watermelon feta salad and peach crisp with vanilla ice cream.
Goses, which are traditionally brewed to be slightly tangy and salty, have a longstanding German history since the 16th century. They are brewed using both malted barley and wheat to provide a bit of sharpness and a smooth mouthfeel. After the brewhouse addition of spices such as coriander, the style is then fermented with wild, top-fermenting yeast to produce a dry, bubbly, puckery product. Interestingly, because brewing goses required more wheat than the standard lager beers in vogue at the time, they fell out of production as post-World War East Germany (where gose was primarily brewed) needed to ration their supply of wheat for bread making as opposed to beer making. The demolition of the Berlin Wall, in combination with the booming North American craft beer movement in the late 80s, encouraged the gose resurgence in Germany with local Leipzig brewers and provided a canvas of endless creative possibility for North American craft brewers.
“At Iron Hill, we always enjoy pushing the flavor envelope and this latest limited release is no exception,” said Iron Hill Restaurant and Brewery Co-Founder and Director of Brewery Operations, Mark Edelson. “Tropical Blast Gose was an experiment into the unknown and resulted in a bright, cheery and sunny beer, hopefully like the people who want to drink it.”
[divider]About Iron Hill[/divider]Named after the historic Revolutionary War landmark in Delaware, where General George Washington battled the British, Iron Hill is among the most enduringly successful craft brewers in the United States. Its 21-year consecutive medal-winning streak at national and international competitions is the longest by any independent craft brewery.
Founded by home brewers Kevin Finn, Mark Edelson and restaurateur Kevin Davies in Newark, DE in 1996, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant has blossomed from one restaurant and brewery to 14 locations up and down the East Coast, including Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and South Carolina. Each brewery/restaurant has their own scratch kitchen and craft brewery, allowing individual chefs and brewers the creativity to pair the freshest ingredients with the highest quality grains and hops. For 21 years, Iron Hill has incorporated beer in everything they do. As a result, Finn, Edelson and Davies are viewed as innovative business leaders in their home state of Delaware and in the Mid-Atlantic region. They started Iron Hill at a time when small breweries were just beginning to gain mass appeal around the country and their entrepreneurial, forward thinking helped build them into what they are to date. Each individual location has its own head brewer. Each location dedicates itself to the freshest ingredients and friendly atmosphere for all age groups – helping change overall perceptions about brewpubs one meal, one pint, one community at a time.
[divider]Locations[/divider]
Newark, DE (147 East Main Street, 302-266-9000); Wilmington, DE (620 Justison Street, 302-472-2739); Media, PA (30 East State Street, 610-627-9000); West Chester, PA (3 West Gay Street, 610-738-9600); North Wales, PA(1460 Bethlehem Pike, 267-708-2000); Phoenixville, PA (130 East Bridge Street, 610-983-9333); Lancaster, PA(781 Harrisburg Pike, 717-291-9800); Maple Shade, NJ (124 East Kings Highway, 856-273-0300); Voorhees, NJ(13107 Town Center Boulevard, 856-545-9009); Chestnut Hill, PA (8400 Germantown Avenue, 215-948-5600); Ardmore, PA (60 Greenfield Avenue, 610-228-2280); and Huntingdon Valley, PA (785 Huntingdon Pike, 610-602-9255); Greenville, SC (741 Haywood Rd. 864-568-7009); Rehoboth, DE (19815 Coastal Highway. 302-260-8000) and two new locations opening in 2018, including: Philadelphia, PA and Hershey, PA.
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