Sky High Rye
Arcadia Brewing Co. in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.83
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This West Coast-style Pale Ale is brewed with 80% English barley malt and 20% rye malt. It boasts a massive floral aroma of resinous hops, contributing notes of lemons, peaches and pine needles and anchored by sweet, malty flavor of toffee and freshly-baked pumpernickel bread.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at waterfron manhattan. Orangey w/decent head. A nice sessionable drinking rye, tastable but not overpowering hops
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2025
at 00:59
8/10
RB score 3.45
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2025
at 04:16
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:45
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 8
Hazy pale golden colour, tall frothy white head, good retention and lacing. Restrained aroma, pale malt, grain, citrus, pine. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, rye, spicy notes. Bittersweet aftertaste, grainy, lingering orange pith. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation, smooth, well-balanced, nice.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2019
at 14:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery in Kalamazoo
Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma of tropical fruit and mild citrus. Flavor is fruity, oranges and pine, rye spice
Solid Pale Ale
Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma of tropical fruit and mild citrus. Flavor is fruity, oranges and pine, rye spice
Solid Pale Ale
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2018
at 16:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
light citrus. soft carbonation like old coke. golden pour with decent head. Light bitter finish. easy drinking.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2017
at 20:52
7/10
Clear amb bod med foam off wht head. Soicy rye and floral arma. Spicy resiny flav. Med full bod mod carb. 7/4/7/3/15 3.6
Tried
from Draft
on 22 May 2017
at 21:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce can into pint glass, no can dating. Pours moderate hazy/cloudy golden amber/light orange color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lasts. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, lemon/orange peel, pine, honey, light caramel, spicy rye, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/pine hops and moderate rye/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, lemon/orange peel, pine, honey, light caramel, spicy rye, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine/citrus peel bitterness and rye spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, citrus peel, pine, spicy rye, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops and moderate rye/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero lingering hop/rye astringency after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from bitter/spiciness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/sticky, and slightly resinous balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6%. Overall this is a great rye pale ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops and moderate rye/bready malt flavors; very smooth and refreshing to drink with the balanced bitter/spicy flavors. Very bright on hop flavors with great rye malt balance. Still tastes pretty fresh despite no can dating. A really enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2017
at 18:28
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
The Sampler, Brooklyn tap: pours orange with a white head. Aroma is rye malt, pine, and resin, and some underlying fruitiness. Taste is quite bitter, but there is also a definite smoothness to it. Aftertaste is long and lingering. Quite resinous. Pine there more than fruit. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jul 2015
at 21:20
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can from Brooklyn
Hazy orange color, steady white head. Malty, citrus, a bit of rye in the nose. Medium-bodied. Lemony, citric, sweetish fruity hoppy flavor. A bit plasticky citrusness and alcohol in the finish,
Hazy orange color, steady white head. Malty, citrus, a bit of rye in the nose. Medium-bodied. Lemony, citric, sweetish fruity hoppy flavor. A bit plasticky citrusness and alcohol in the finish,
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jun 2015
at 10:49