Ryewine
Drake’s Brewing Company in San Leandro, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Rye Regular|
Score
7.37
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BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Ryewine from Drake’s Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap (I believe this to be the same recipe as the Rye Wine that is already in the database). Pours with a clear orange body with a lasting white head. Aromas are spicy, clove, caramel, alcohol, orange, sweet, and a bit bready. Flavors are alcohol, spicy, rye, orange, tea, rotten banana, vanilla, and light bubbles. Sticky, boozy, and sweet.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Ryewine from Drake’s Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at the Freakin’ Frog, Las Vegas
Muddy amber color. The aroma doesn’t develop much beyond some caramel and a faint sweetness and fruitness; and maybe some hop, if you are patient and wait. But the flavor is much more powerful, with a sweet but not cloying fruity caramel and malt, light toffee, light maple syrup, hidden but good hopping, and the alcohol and bitterness seem to match the malt. Strong body, and the alcohol perception is not in the mouth: you will feel it in the blood later. Interesting, very good, for a lover of sweet Barley Wines like me.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Ryewine from Drake’s Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On draught at Freakin’ Frog in Las Vegas. This brew is a hazed amber-orange color with a medium beige head that dissipates slowly. Thin rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of spice, bready malt and brandy. Rich-bodied, this beer is definitely a sipper. Flavors of sweet spices, caramel malt, raw fruit and rye. The finish is bready malt with an undercurrent of alcohol, hops and spices. Overall this is a distinct Barley Wine that is fairly enjoyable.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Ryewine from Drake’s Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Small, fine, yellowish head, over orange-foxy beer. Orangey nose, not particulary hoppy, bit spicy, but very alcoholic. Bit of ureum. Caramel, alcohol, sweetish but with a fiery, bitterish-hoppy ending. Flavours as from brandy-cake. In the finish, dry-ish liquorice flavour, and orange jam. Some wholemeal-like flavour warming up, getting nutty. Fiery MF, but not astringent. Well bodied, very slick - oily. Alcoholwarming. The massive amount of alcohol does the beer no good, IMO, being too present. Flavours are OK, just too - alcoholic. A rare one, thanks very much, Rodger!
bb (18428) reviewed Ryewine from Drake’s Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with an off-white head. Sweet caramel, earthy spice aroma. Spicy, malty, sweet caramel flavor. Alcohol definitely present. Apricot and peach start to show. Medium body. Lingering caramel, spice, alcohol and light fruit (apricot).
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Ryewine from Drake’s Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
On tap at the Hopyard, Pleasanton back in October. It poured a clear copper-ish red with a thin white head. It was served a bit on the cold side. The aroma is subdued – sleepy. I get sweet sugar malts, cherry hard candy, dark fruitiness that leans toward the light side and a note of alcohol. The alcohol nose is almost nothing considering the ABV. It comes off thick and viscous, how I prefer a barleywine, ushering in a brief muted wood note followed by sweet fruitiness like stewed cherries, plums and sweet dark grapes. A rye malt twang arrives about midway and plays beautifully against the fruity sweetness. Toward the finish a dryer red wine flavor wells up to aid the rye malts in fighting off the syrupy sweet fruitiness. Wow, awesome. The more I consume the more I like it.
Irishboy (4674) reviewed Ryewine from Drake’s Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Shared at the Bistro’s West Coast BA Fest, 11/10/07; Nose of caramel and fruitiness; copper orange with a small off-white head; flavor of sweet apricots and oranges!