7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Berkeley Bowl West. Pours a strangely brown tinged copper with a beige head. Aroma is a mix of rye and citrus. Enough stuff to tingle the nostrils. Flavor is rye spice, maybe some earthy malt, and arguably a citrus note. There’s a lot of right. Finishes rather bitter, but far from harshly so. Rye is the thing here. Like rye.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2015
at 18:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22 oz. bottle. It pours a clear, deep amber color with a medium off white head. The aroma is kind of syrupy and full with berries and rye. Mild notes of florals and citrus. The flavor is the same. Totally dominated by rye malt which lend a bit of a syrupy, berry-like flavor and mild citrus/floral hop character. A bit too sweet and syrupy for my tastes, but it manages to finish not too cloying and thankfully with a reserved bitterness. I was thinking this was going to be another overly bitter, palate-clobbering ASA, but it wasn’t due to the restrained bittering hop charge. If you like big, thick chewy, sweet rye character, then this is your beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2015
at 13:06