Rye Hopper
French Broad River Brewery in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Speciality Grain Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.73
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The Ryehopper began as a fall seasonal and has now found it’s way into our regular line-up. The brewers noticed a lack of rye beers in the Asheville area and wanted to fill that gap. This beer represents assistant brewer Chris Richards’ first recipe released by the brewery. The malted rye contributes both a rounded maltines and a sharp earthy flavor, bridging the maltiness of the barley and the bitterness of the hops. In essence, the Ryehopper is a hoppy rye beer. Seriously, what else did you expect?
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated brown bottle poured into a snifter. Burnt orange with small white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is herbal hops, spicy rye, and slightly bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2016
at 18:29
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Amber body with a frothy, off-white head. Aroma of grapefruit, orange peel, lemon, caramel. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/sticky texture, lively carbonation. The sweet start carries through the finish. In fact, the sweetness could use some taming. Taste of citrus, grapefruit, pine, caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2016
at 15:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to ChrisO. It pours clear amber with a thick yellow-white head. The nose is pine, varnish, spiced, lemon meringue pie, citrus peel and earth. The taste is bitter, pine needles, soapy, lemon peel, mild caramel, light spice and resin with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2014
at 12:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the brewery taproom during RBWG 2014 - Asheville. Pours clear russet with a creamy head. Some bready malts in here with light pine, grains, orangey citrus. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Lightly toasted bread to finish, moderate sweetness, some pine and ripe citrus. OK. Tasty but simple.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Feb 2014
at 02:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the Memorial Day Deck Beers tasting on 05/27/2013: Clear copper color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of hops and grainy malt. Light to medium body with flavors of peppery hops and bready malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a spiced rye hops aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2013
at 12:50
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Growler from Blind Murphy’s. Nice copper color, with a small, off-white head. The aroma is mild rye, resin, herbs, and pine tar. Malty-sweet flavor, with a relatively mild bitterness through the finish. A metalic twang in the aftertaste. Light to medium body, a little acidic, crisp, and clean. Overall, this is a mild and drinkable rye IPA, but nothing special.
Tried
from Growler
on 17 Apr 2013
at 19:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 22fl.oz.Unclear matt medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, rye, moderate hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, rye, hoppy, light earthy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130315]
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2013
at 08:28