Rhye IPA
Smuttynose Brewing Company in Hampton, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Rye Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.30
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In craft beer, there are almost as many bad rye puns as there are bad hop puns; Smuttynose is happy to spare you from more of either. Instead, we’ll tell you about our new Big Beer, Rhye IPA. We brewed it because we like drinking hoppy American-style beers and we wanted a chance to brew with rye. The rest, as they say, is history. The result is a 7% hoppy IPA, with rye spiciness and big hop character. This beer will really get under your armor…
The image on the Rhye IPA label is a famous drawing of an Indian rhinoceros by 16th century German painter and printmaker, Albrecht Dürer. Dürer had never seen the creature before and created the drawing based on one description and a crudely scribbled sketch.
The image on the Rhye IPA label is a famous drawing of an Indian rhinoceros by 16th century German painter and printmaker, Albrecht Dürer. Dürer had never seen the creature before and created the drawing based on one description and a crudely scribbled sketch.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ yespr. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a white head. Has a fruity malty spicy citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus piney hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2014
at 05:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample from 65 cl. bottle. Hazy, golden colour with an amber tint. Small, white head. Fruity aroma with citrus, grapefruits, grass, caramel malts and a herbal, rye note. Taste is bitter. Medium body with an average carbonation. Finishes fruity with pines and a herbal note. Nice IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2014
at 08:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
650ml bottle. Slightly cloudy, deep golden to amber colour with average, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Piney, minimally citrusy hoppy aroma. Taste is intensely bitter hoppy, hints of pineapple, passion fruit. Really boring and disappointing for a paradigmatic US craft brewery’s IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2014
at 09:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, 2013 vintage bottling. Pours lightly hazy golden amber color with a 2 finger dense and rocky white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon zest, orange peel, orange rind, apricot, floral, grass, rye, biscuit, light caramel, light pine, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with balanced hop and malt notes; with decent strength. Taste of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, apricot, orange rind, pine, floral, grass, biscuit, rye, light caramel, and floral/grassy earthiness. Good amount of grassy/pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, apricot, floral, grass, light pine, biscuit, rye, light caramel, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity of citrus hops and balanced malt flavors; with a crisp malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a lightly creamy, smooth, and fairly sticky/crisp mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice rye IPA. Good balance and complexity of citrus hop and rye/bready malt flavors; and smooth and crisp to sip on. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2014
at 20:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Medium, very fine & dense white head, bit irregular, over faintly veiled orange beer, well-carbonated. Obviously fruity, if restrained. Whiff of ureum; resin, caramel, banana. Bitter, again very resiny, turpentine or regular solvent. Less fruity than the nose. Hint of rice (rather than rye?), with references to basmati. Wholemeal bread, and dried (exotic) fruit. Quite slick, medium bodied, bit oily even nearly chewy. Nothing sparkling, nothing extravagant, but in the end a very pleasing ale.
Tried
on 31 Jan 2014
at 10:53