Rug IPA

Swing top bottle. Dark brown color, creamy head. Dominant grapefruit and red berries aroma, cascade hops. Hoppy, earthy, sweetish flavor with lioads of citrus. Red berries. Earthy bitter aftertaste. maybe a bit excaggerated Cascade flavor, but all n all a good balance and a lovely aroma and flavor.

50 cl bottle. Dark amber body with off-white head. Flavour is malt, rye and hops

Thick and sweet. There is not much to this beer, standard light gold color, and in addition to the unusually thick palate, there is light malt sweetness and faded hops. Nothing wrong with it, but it doesn’t bring a lot to get excited about.

Hazy Orange colour with large white fluffy head.Aroma is strong hoppy and bitter fruity with note of yeast.Well balanced with medium body.nice bitter finish.

Bottle. golden brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is citrus, hop, yeast, malt. Flavour is citrus, hop, yeast, malt. Balanced flavour. Bitter finish. Nice beer.

Bottle, best before 2008 sep 05. Nice hoppy aroma, doesn’t let you know what’s coming. Looks okay, but foam is a bit thin. Flavor is honey and hops. also some brown sugar. Totally surprising since it didn’t smell that way. Tastes great but a little too much honey/caramel. You could pour it over cereral, lol.. Quite a surprise, but a nice beer. Not sure if it was intened to taste like this. Tried another bottle. The very sugary taste was less dominant. Now it’s even better.

(Draught at Pikkulintu on 2008-01-24) Strong hoppiness in both nose and taste. Rye used gives some strength to the body which is pleasant.

Bottle. Pours an orange-brown, a bit murky, with a beige head. Quite small now. Piney, citrusy nose with a good malty sweetness. Maybe a bit on the hoppy side, but it’s enough malt to prevent it from being one-dimentional. Full-bodied with flavors of pine, resin, citrus, sugar, malt, a little roasted note and beefstock. Really bitter. Long hoppy finish with lots of resin and citrus. The citrus is mostly grapefruit. Sure a good one, but I fear it might be retired by the new owners. That would be a shame. Rating: 7-4-7-4-15-3.7. (080323)

Bottle, from trade with Pinball. Thx a lot, I really wanted to have it again. It’s a hazy, slightly cloudy dark orange-golden beer with a finger-thick off-white to beige head that lasts. Lacings. Malty-sweet on the nose, giving lots of room for the hops. Even though it’s seven months past BB-date, there’s a good dash of piney, citrusy hops in it. Some black tea as well. Quite sweet flavor, full-bodied and wisely carbonated. Maybe a bit on the sweet side, almost sugary, with caramel and some beef-stock. Citrus, pine-cones and some tea too. It lacks a bit on the bitterness, but I choose to blaim that on it’s age. Fruity, sugary and slightly bitter finish. Very flavorful, dangerously easy to drink, and unfortunately not brewed anymore. (090804)

Small offwhite head. Hazy amber body. Intense tropical fruit aroma and firm rye malt aroma, very harmonic. Notes of flowers, resin, and honey. Intense sweet-and-dry resin and honey and rye malt taste with roasty tropical fruit notes. Long dry, malty, fruity aftertaste with a powerful rye character. Notes of straw. Faint alcohol taste, and some alcohol heat. Leaves sticky sugar on the lips. Excellent marriage of rye malts and hops. (0.5l bottle at Bishop’s Arms, Göteborg. Brewed 5. jan ’08.)

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