On Tap is a regular column featuring our recommendations on the most-unique, new draft-beer offerings from local pubs.
Our Recommendation: Funkadelphia
Where: Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant, 3 W. Gay St., West Chester, PA
This past weekend, we celebrated my son Jay’s 21st birthday with a leisurely lunch and beers at Side Bar & Restaurant, and then stopped in at the bar at Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant for a final pint. I’m ready for the fall beers—the dark, unfiltered wheat beers, the porters and stouts. What I found at Iron Hill was Funkadelphia.
I have to admit, hearing the word “funk” used for a beer description gave me pause. Though I’ve read the word used as a descriptor for sour ales, when I was 21 the term “funk” was mostly used to describe a beer gone bad, as in “that beer tastes funky.” With that in my mind, I asked for a taste to see what I was getting myself into, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Funkadelphia is a Belgian-American style sour ale. According to the beer menu, this ale is made with “a blend of wild yeast and bacteria” and is “aged in wine barrels for half a year.”
This beer poured orange with a very carbonated, frothy head. The first notes were citrus, which flourishes before finishing out with a crisp tartness that definitely invigorates the taste buds on the tongue. The tartness is pleasant, not over the top like a sour candy. With the sourness and the 6.5% ABV, this was a nice after-meal ale.
Like the cool weather at this time of year, Funkadelphia is refreshing and reinvigorating, and proved to be a good crossover beer. Happy Birthday Jay!
One Comment