Cane and Ebel

Bottle. Sweet cherry/orange hops aroma. Brown amber color with small head. Sweet cane sugar flavor up front followed by a light rye malt and finishing with a strong pine/grapefruit hops finish. Very IPA-like.

Brought to the Richmond Beer Industry Gathering 2006. Dark amber body with a small white head. Sweet malty aroma with some mild floral hops. Sweet floral hop flavor with a very smooth ending.

Smallish offwhite head over deep red body. Sweet, sharpish, wild berry aroma with rye malt notes. Deep, firm malt sweetness. Taste is nutty rye malts with hop background. Bitterish, but not too bitter. Bitter sugary taste lingers. Quite simple, but reasonably good. (0.65l bottle.)

Medium ruby pour, with minimal lace - very malty aroma, with notes of toasted bread and vanilla - a little too sweet overall, but there is enough dry bitterness to keep it somewhat in check - the rye is quite present, along with some bready malt to give it a multigrain bread kind of taste - the plum sugar is noticable, combining with some vanilla flavor to give the beer a unique touch - I would still like it to be a little less sweet.

Pour is a dark red with a large white head. Aroma is strong amounts of rye with some hops to even out the bitterness. Flavor is a nice mix of hops and cane sugar. Very pleasing to all the sences. Of all the "rye" beers i have had this is prob the only one i could actually taste and smell the rye used. Very good and satisfying.

22 oz. Bottle. Interesting pour. Belgian type sugary smell accented by a grassy spicy hop nose. Pours nice brown which lets light shine through red, and lots of pinprick bubbles. Taste is a nice spicy surprise. I don’t know if I can pick out a rye beer blind, but this has a definite rye bread taste. Sweetness is not overdone, except for slightly masking the slightly Scots malts. The hops I find really intriguing, like Amarillo whupped by pine branches. A combination of lots of big flavors, all working together in some weird way. I can’t find the alcohol either, but I suspect I will notice it later.

Draught pint at Redbones on 6/1/06.
Deep auburn-amber red, with light gold highlights. Head is medium sized at first, frothy, off-white and mostly diminishing to cover, with minor lacing. High clarity, but not crystal clear, with some glassiness to it
Fruitiness overwhelms (in a good way) in the nose. Juicy fruits, cherries, strawberries and lightly leafy, juicy hop buds all surge forward, clinging to the nose and allowing the dry, lightly peppery rye notes to slip in on the backend. Malt is lightly toasty, with a fair dose of sugariness that seems well-suited to the fruity hops. As it warms and breathes, the aroma dries out somewhat, with a definite perfuminess that I associate with rye, but perhaps incorrectly so, as it could just be some bitter hop acids. Strength is medium to medium-high and well persistent to the end of the glass
The flavor is no less hoppy, though fortunately for the balance, it is mostly flavoring hops, without the stinging, acidic bitterness. Rye is lightly nutty, but only coming on in the middle. The very first sip is lightly chocolatey, with a creamy, engaging mouthfeel that seems both more sweet and deep than Founders Reds Rye. Not to burst Two Brothers bubble, but this is certainly not far removed from Reds Rye. A highly hopped red ipa with rye, it certainly is well done. Fluffy, nearly creamy vanilla-cream sweetness lasts on the finish, as a minor touch of bready malts begin to dry things. Leafy, fuzzy hops linger on, not as fruity as the beginning, but still bitter and pleasing to the palate, creating balance to the sweet malts. No alcohol noted in flavor or aroma. A touch more thin upon warming, but no doubt due to the draught nature (looser carbonation).