100 Barrel Series #37: Rich & Dan's Rye IPA

Pours a clear deep golden almost copper color with a stingy beige head that dissipates slowly before attaching a fair amount of lace to the sides. Smells of grapefruit and citrus fruit mixed with a spicy rye twang. Lots of toffee and caramel in there to provide a backbone. Taste is pretty much what I expected from the aroma. Sweet caramel and toffee up front mildly spicy rye followed by less grapefruit and citrus than I expected. Finishes kind of dry with a long lingering citric bitterness. Reminds me a whole lot of Harpoon IPA, but a little creamier and a little rye added. Creamy smooth mouthfeel, medium body and carbonation level. I enjoyed this one there’s really nothing wrong with it, but there’s not really anything spectacular about it either. Good beer, but not great, glad I got to try it.

Regional Food and Drink, DC pint ($4 hh): Pours a golden colour without too much in the way of head. Aroma is of rye, hops that seemed a bit German to me, at least in the way of aroma., and some sugar. Plenty of hops, giving it a good amount of bitterness. Not on the fruity side at all. More earthy than anything. Some herbs and stuff like that. Not on the sweet side either. Leaves a moderate aftertaste. A pleasant drink though.

A nice ipa, very easy to drink, the rye only gives it a slightly earthy aroma and flavor, but doesn’t change up the basic ipa too much. would like to see harpoon venture a little farther outside the box for a special release like this, but very nice ipa

Pours deep gold into a Shaker. Off-white head meringues and pancakes and recedes leaving spider lacing. Sweet caramel and rye aromas. Dry with sweet caramel and bread upfront turning to bitter rye in the lasting hop finish.

Bottle for 2700th rating. Pours clear gold. Fluffy white head. Nose/taste of rye, citrus, hops, pineapple and caramel malt. Dry slightly bitter finish. Light to medium body.

From tap at Gingerman. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is dense malty and solid hops fruity. Crisp hopy fruity, citrusy and bitter dry. Dry and fruity flavoured. Mild peachy. Dry and slight herbal finish.