The Rev James Rye
Brains in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴
Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Regular|
Score
6.41
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The Rev. James ales are based on an original recipe from 1885, and named in honour of brewing legend the Rev. James Buckley, saver of souls and satisfier of thirsts. Brewed with our exclusive Buckleys yeast, they each deliver a signature taste with a surprising twist.
The Rev. James Rye is dark, dry and distinctive, brewed for a full flavour and bitter finish with unexpected glimpses of citrus and spice.
The Rev. James Rye is dark, dry and distinctive, brewed for a full flavour and bitter finish with unexpected glimpses of citrus and spice.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the haymarket. Pours clear ruby, nose is burnt toffee, malty, taste is similar, peppery, sweet berry. --- Beer merged from original tick of The Rev. James Rye on 29 Mar 2016 at 07:56 - Score: 6. Original review text: Cask at the haymarket. Pours clear ruby, nose is burnt toffee, malty, taste is similar, peppery, sweet berry.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Mar 2016
at 09:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tried at The Three Stags, Bebbington. They say don’t mess with a classic. And brains have, but i like this. Deep ruby colour with a tan head. Aroma has berries, fruit. taste Sweet rye with more fruitiness, leading to a mid bitter finish.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2016
at 14:39
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2015. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy caramel aroma. Fruit malty spicy caramel and rye flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy caramel and rye finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Mar 2016
at 08:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Foley Arms, Pedmore. Pours dark brown with a small head. Aroma has light spice and Ribena. It’s a simple, bready bitter with some fruity spice on the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Mar 2016
at 10:38
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2015, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Brains The Rev James Rye ].Clear light dark brown - red amber color with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dark malt, berry - rye. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, rye, dark malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20150812]
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Dec 2015
at 08:19
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Free Press, Cambridge. Dark ruby brown with a smattering of creamy head. Blackberry and chocolate aroma with an outside hint of smoke. The sweetness of the rye works really well here, holding its own to the end, where a refreshing hoppy bitterness tempers the finish. This is one of Brains’ better beers, and head and shoulders above the original Rev James.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Dec 2015
at 11:47
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12th August 2015
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Clear deep red - amber beer, no head. Palate is smooth with modest fine carbonation. Tangy malts, some caramel. Vibrant tangy dried fruits. Light finish. No real rye spice.
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Clear deep red - amber beer, no head. Palate is smooth with modest fine carbonation. Tangy malts, some caramel. Vibrant tangy dried fruits. Light finish. No real rye spice.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Aug 2015
at 08:08
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at GBBF 2015. Dark ruby beer. Lasting beige head. It’s alright some rye spice but faint. It’s malty sweetish but overall a little watery but fine. Spicy.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2015
at 13:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From cask. Pours clear and golden dark brown with a deep red glare, small off white head. Aroma is roasted malty. Bitter, toasted, dry and toasted malty. Bitter, dry and breadish dark malty.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2015
at 11:08
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF. It pours clear deep mahogany brown with a small beige head. The nose is earthy, woody, cola, brown bread, spicy, leather, oily, fruit cake and toffee. The taste is smooth, bitter, oily, leather, wood, fruit cake, toasty, pepper, twiggy, spice and mild acidity with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Well- rounded and pretty drinkable stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2015
at 09:08