Charkoota Rye
New Holland Brewing Company in Holland, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Smoked / Rauchbier Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.71
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including malted barley smoked over cherry wood. Its smoke-forward body is balanced with tones of deep mollasses and caramel, with a crisp, clean lager finish.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a dark brown color beer with a nice thick brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of smoked malt is quite intense with light caramelized notes also noticeable. Taste is dominated by a great malt base with loads of smoke notes with some caramelized notes with light molasses. Body is quite full with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. This has to be one of the most smoked beer outside of the original German smoked beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours black. Nose/taste of smoky ash, peat and spicy rye with some hints of chocolate, caramel and molasses in the taste. Smooth with a smoky rye finish. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled on draft at Smokin’ Joe’s this beer poured a dark brown-orange color with a small beige head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was greasy bacon, wood and smoke. The flavor was smoky bacon, wood, red meat, charcoal and then more bacon. The finish was incredibly long smoked bacon. Fairly full bodied. Odd.
Travlr (30174) reviewed Charkoota Rye from New Holland Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at Churchkey. Very dark and clear brown, tan edge head. Aroma of smouldering campfire and charcoal. Taste has burnt chocolate. Nice.
Lubiere (24605) reviewed Charkoota Rye from New Holland Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A reddish copper brown ale with a thin moka head. A lightly smoked and peaty malt, quite interesting. In mouth, a smooth smoked malt with light fruity esters, caramel, not too intense, light sweetness in finale. On tap at Brewvvival, Feb. 26 2011.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap as part of a sampler at the New Holland Brewery in Holland, MI. Appearance again a dirty brown, near black with an off white head that forms a ring around the glass. Aroma is very nice, like equal parts smoke and German lager yeast, states it was smoked over cherry wood and I can sense that, a sweet backing to it. Taste is very nice, great balance of that smokiness with the crispness of the malts. Very smooth and balanced, could definitely enjoy a pint or two of this one, my favorite from the sampler.
obguthr (12524) reviewed Charkoota Rye from New Holland Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Highly smoked charcoal nose. Clear garnet brown, thin yellow head. Sweet and sour currants and plums. Smoky, savory, beef liver finish. Full bodied. The combination of fruitiness and smoked meat doesn’t work for me.
deyholla (22839) reviewed Charkoota Rye from New Holland Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to my Mom. Pours a dark hazy amber with a light gray head tha dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a slight smoke note with a more powerful sweet rye note and a bit of caramel. Flavor is full of rye with a light smokey note with a slight underlying sweet bread note.
Anders37 (30297) reviewed Charkoota Rye from New Holland Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a slightly roasted malty smoky aroma with hints of caramel. Sweetish malty smoky caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty smoky finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Smoked rye doppelbock - there is normally nothing about that I would hate - but in this case... - the nose is pretty darn inviting, with a lot of campfire smokiness, charred wood, caramelized sugars, moderate rye spiciness - the flavor has is a combination of these qualities, but they do not come together as well as they do in the aroma - it is far too sweet, and winds up tasting a lot like burnt marshmallows - strong cherrywood and rye arrive late, but mostly this is quite sticky and treacle-like.