Samuel Adams Honey Rye Pale Ale

Honey Rye Pale Ale

 

Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Rotating Out of Production
Score
6.37
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 33 Ticks: 9
Often used to enhance body and flavor, the rye in this beer also adds a hint of spice that complements the citrusy, spicy hop notes. The addition of honey malt adds a deep amber color and touch of sweetness that softens the spice and rounds out the flavor, for a crisp, bright finish.
 

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Tried on 27 Oct 2017 at 23:08


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

12oz bottle. A pretty nice rye-honey beer, certainly not an APA. Leans into the sweet malts, but there is a light, pleasant hop balance too. Kind of fleshes out the honey malt tones, but the rye is still sort of drab. Probably tasted a whole lot better on the pilot system before they dumbed it down. Drinkable, but pretty much just another tick.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Oct 2017 at 20:00


6.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Honey, orange, rye malt, and hay aroma. Amber with large off-white head. Moderately sweet honey, citrus, light rye malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Body on the light side. Decent, easy drinking.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2017 at 22:32


4.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle from gun town. Pale with a big foamy head the=at does not fade. Good solid fresh beery aroma. Rye punches thru with its typical bitter bite. Even tho it say lightly hopped, plenty of hop bitterness. Probably a little better than I thought it would be.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2017 at 13:28


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12 oz bottle from the fall variety pack. Aroma is honey, floral, peppery, caramel, grain. Pours clear copper with a collapsing bone white head. Taste is mildly sweet, mildly bitter, very dry, a tad spicy. Flavors of honey, herbal hops, hint of licorice.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2017 at 18:23


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Hannaford. Appearance is clear amber with light sparkle, 2-finger width frothy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is rye, vegetal, cardboard, light herb/grass, mild late sweet hint of honey. Taste is rye, light grass/herbs, weak nondescript malts. Palate is light bodied with thin texture, soft-to-average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, this is strongly rye, as it should be. Everything else is understated.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2017 at 18:38


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12oz bottle-foamy offwhite-gold. A-pine/spice/citrus. T-follows, 2nd lt malt/grain. Good carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Aug 2017 at 16:05


6.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottle: Clear, deep, golden-amber with a frothy beige head. Grain, rye, honey aroma. Taste is mildly sweet, rye malt, mild honey.....a bit of herbal bittering. Not bad....but nothing really stands out in any of it’s elements, however.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2017 at 17:58


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Better than I thought it would be, with a tangible rye presence and thankfully subtle honey sweetness. Slight citric hoppiness plays nicely with the honey and malt on the front, while the rye comes through on a lingering piney finish. A bit too middle-of-the-road to be memorable, but the pour is pretty, and the dry back end makes the honey notes bearable.

Tried on 12 Aug 2017 at 20:47