8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottled on 04/18/2017.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance is a golden burnt orange almost copper color with a finger and a half’s worth of white foamy head that glistened and slowly receded. Some clingy lace.
The aroma pops a blend of citrusy to floral sweet hoppy tones up front. Spicy components of the rye slide in not necessarily underneath but it evenly bursts up into the hoppy tones. Light hay/grassiness at the end. Not as earthy as I thought it would be.
The flavor richly keeps the stable sweet floral and citrusy tones to meld with sweet side of the rye. Spiciness is still showing an ample amount of quality. Slight citrusy/floral and light rye aftertaste. Finish produces some the malts along with the rye.
The feel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it as the rye spiciness doesn’t impart enough harshness to distract. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, nice APA leaning towards a rye beer. Would likely come back to this for me.