Black Rice Ale
Anderson Valley Brewing Company in Boonville, California, United States 🇺🇸
Speciality Grain Regular|
Score
6.29
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Once called the “forbidden rice” as it was reserved only for Chinese royalty, black rice has a powerful anthocyanin antioxidant properties, a luxurious black color and wonderful nutty flavor. We brewed this nut brown ale with American two-row pale malt, a good helping of black rice, and a touch of chocolate malt. The result is a lightly hoppy, dark mahogany ale with undertones of roasted malt, dark rye bread with a delicious nutty flavor. Weighing in at an easy going 3.8% ABV, this beer is infinitely quaffable and ready to be enjoyed by everyone.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can picked up somewhere last summer on the US trip. Almost black with a tall, foamy head. Light berry aroma. Black bread. Taste is mildly bitter with a faint tartness. Body medium to light with a very watery texture. Empty, watery finish. Nothing really wrong, just not much going on. A drinkable low ABV beer though.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3
A black light beer, lacking pretty much everything you want in both a schwarzbier and a craft lager. Slight nuttiness—and I do mean slight—followed by mild corn notes and yeast on the back end. As complex as a sheet of plain white copy paper. Pass.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of toast, soapy notes and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter. Light bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12oz can. Chunky brown body. Thick, large, beige head. A rather nice Brown Ale. The low ABV might be true-ish for an English version, but this is an American example, and it comes off a little watery. Overall a pretty good beer, but lacks a certain something. A nice addition to the Anderson Valley line up.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 7/8/2019. Pours slightly hazy dark ruby red/brown color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy light khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, charcoal, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/black/bready malts, light-moderate earthy hops, and light fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, charcoal, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, woody, grassy, peppery, roast, charred bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, brown bread/crust, dark fruit, smoke, charcoal, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/bready malts, light-moderate earthy hops, and light fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/grainy/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 3.8%. Overall this is a very nice session American brown ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/bready malts, light-moderate earthy hops, and light fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and pretty refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Nicely rich malts, balancing earthy hops, and restrained fruity yeast. Mild residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example for the ABV.