Q Dry Rubbed
DuClaw Brewing Company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.38
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HOP VARIETY:
Columbus & Cascade
GRAINS:
Pale, Munich, & CaraRed
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superspak (10160) reviewed Q Dry Rubbed from DuClaw Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 5/10/2017. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy golden orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, lemon zest, orange peel, peppercorn, coriander, paprika, cayenne, allspice, light pine, light caramel, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/pine hops, spices, and moderate bready malt flavors; with solid strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, lemon zest, orange peel, peppercorn, coriander, paprika, cayenne, allspice, pine, light caramel, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine/citrus peel/grassy bitterness and pepper spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of rapefruit, tangerine, peach, pineapple, lemon/orange peel, peppercorn, coriander, paprika, cayenne, allspice, pine, light caramel, toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops, spices, and moderate bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 6%, with a slight increasing of pepper heat through the glass on the finish. Overall this is a very nice spiced American pale ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops, spices, and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/spicy/drying finish. Was expecting this to be a spice bomb, but was pleasantly surprised. Perfectly balanced citrus/pine C hops and spice flavors; with a nice bready malt backbone. Spot on APA style. The spice rub was used with great restraint. Not salty notes, onion, or garlic etc. A very unique and enjoyable offering.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Q Dry Rubbed from DuClaw Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled on draft at Social this beer poured a medium brown color with a honey hue and a large creamy.h orange-tan head that left excellent lacing. The aroma was sweetish caramel, pine, hot pepper and fruity hops. The flavor was vague spices, a bit of hot pepper, pine and fruity hops. Medium length finish. Medium body. Ok.
cheap (9533) reviewed Q Dry Rubbed from DuClaw Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Surprised this is not listed, I thought I did a complete search with Q, then Dry, then Rub but nothing came up, and it sat in my cellar for over a month, oh well, here goes nuttin. Looks a little amber pale with a nice creamy head, no nose of BBQ what so ever. Taste is like any other pale ale. It does have an odd thing going on there but to say it tastes like rub is not correct. Yes, something there but it does not do the pale ale justice. I don’t think that putting BBQ seasoning in a beer is a good idea, JMHO. Not impressed. If somebody didn’t tell me there was BBQ in this, I’d never know and I am a big fan of dry rub BBQ.