Maple & Thistle Rye Ale
Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Special|
Score
6.20
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Using fistfuls of Goldings & Cascade hops, we’ve matured this brew in 150 oak barrels for 150 days, creating a mighty red ale bursting with flavours and aromas of toffee, vanilla, oak, citrus, smoky maple and orange oil. We’ve bottled conditioned this beer with our own unique strain of yeast, meaning that the bold flavours will continue to develop and become more complex over time. Here’s to the next 150.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark copper pour, huge beige head. Aroma of goldings and fresh cut grass, biscuity malts, bread and some light minerals and metals. Thin mouth feel, soft carb low to medium bitterness, solid grain bill, very bready, hints of vanilla, soft earthy barrel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a clean copper-red colour with caramel highlights. Beige frothy head, good retention and some foamy lace. Not much aromas at first except light sweetness, but then some raisin and wood notes come out. The sweetness gets a little stronger with this. Oh boy, that is different for flavours. Darker malts with the rye spiciness at first, then the raisins come back with a bitter finish from the hops. All with the hints of wood which do not seem well-blended with all of the rest. Was this rushed for our 150th birthday ?? Great presentation in the whiskey tube and a nice try, but a little too all over the place. And the maple is lost.Then I read the back label which says "will continue to develop and become more complex with time"... and seems like a best before JAN 2022. Damn, wish I would of waited. Should be written to celebrate Canada's 155th birthday.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Innis & Gunn Edinburgh. Clear dark brown colour. Thin head. Rye whisky aroma. Some spice un the mouth. Not great condition thin in mouth. Not great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Denman Liquor and Spirits
Dark amber color, decent body structure and caramel base, plain but not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle - Caramel and charred wood. Clear copper with a small beige head. Caramel, maple and barrel sweetness.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Light brown. Clear. Typical sweet vanilla, and you get a bit of that orange oil. Sweet, thin, with a barrel note. I won’t say it’s bad, but it’s limited, and for me sweet and thin isn’t hitting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
500mL bottle, pours a clear dark copper brown with a small beige head. Aroma is very earthy, with notes of thistle, soil and toasted malt. Flavour is very earthy and spicy, with lots of soil, earthy spices, some orange peel, and toasted bready malt. Thin-bodied, lacking complexity and too earthy. Not a fan.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500m bottle. (5.9% ABV) Pours a slightly hazy ruby-brown with a medium, creamy, long lasting, beige head that laces. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, maple, toffee, rye, vanilla, oak and light orange. Sweet flavour of caramel malt, maple, toffee, vanilla, oak, rye and light citrus with some subtle smokiness in a dry finish. Light to medium body with an oily texture and average carbonation. A little sweet but still quite tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at innis and gunn. Pours deep amber, nose is malty, burnt toffee, caramel, maple syrup, taste is sweet, sugary, caramel, prickly.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Keg at the beer kitchen... Dark black.. Thin tan lacing... Soft dusty caramel toffee fruit nose.. Long sweet caramel toffee fruit.. Big sweet malts.. Not really getting the maple