Rye Lager

Steel & Oak Brewing in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Regular

Score

6.23

ABV: 4.5%

IBU: 23

Ticks: 5

What sets this beer apart? What’s notable? : 100% German ingredients, including 30% rye malt and rounded out with Pilsner and Munich malt, plus a gentle touch of caramel malts. Brewing with rye can be tricky and requires a lot of patience. If you’ve ever made rye bread, you know how sticky it can get. The same thing happens when brewing a rye beer so we have to be extra gentle and take our time to avoid a stuck mash and angry brewers.

Hopped with Hersbrucker, Perle and Tettnang. Fermented cold and slow with our house lager strain and then lagered for 7 weeks.

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6.6

Oakes (33770) reviewed Rye Lager from Steel & Oak Brewing 3 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bright copper-amber, thick head. Has a somewhat chewy aroma. Medium sweet and light bitterness. Malts area touch gloppy in the finish - chewy but without a ton of richness or depth. So the rye is decent, the lager not their best.

Tried on 26 Mar 2023 at 06:05

4.5

Deanf (9781) reviewed Rye Lager from Steel & Oak Brewing 6 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Very soft lager hops on the nose with vague rye hints, muddy medium copper body with modest foam. Flavour is smooth lager hops with soft grain hints. Refreshing mouthfeel. Pretty simple, clean but nothing stands out.

Tried on 25 Jan 2020 at 22:28

7.2

fiulijn (28383) reviewed Rye Lager from Steel & Oak Brewing 10 years ago

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught at the brewery
Hazy bright light amber color. Aroma and flavor carry nice notes of cereals and hay, quite German. Good body structure, nice bitterness level (feels more than 23 IBU), with some grassy note.
Somehow not very refined, but it has good qualities and it’s enjoyable; with some tweaks it may be great.
Powerful brew.

Tried on 19 Sep 2015 at 01:40

5.9

crit200 (5349) reviewed Rye Lager from Steel & Oak Brewing 10 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Amber,beige head.Vague sweet nose. Palate has rye spiciness with light but noticeable hop bitterness in finish. Have had recent nasal surgery so tastebuds are a bit off... will retry at a later date

Tried on 17 Aug 2015 at 00:11

5.6

mcberko (47797) reviewed Rye Lager from Steel & Oak Brewing 10 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Steel & Oak, pours a cloud orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is pretty restrained, with toasted bready malt and lager yeast. Flavour is about the same, with light spiciness from the rye and biscuity malt. Clean enough but lacking in complexity. Not the best flavours either. Okay.

Tried from Draft on 25 Jul 2015 at 14:30