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Repent Rye
Cathedral Square Brewery
- From:
- Cathedral Square Brewery
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 12.6%
- Reviews:
- 8
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 20, 2019
- Added:
- Feb 16, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
Analogous to Barleywine style ale, Repent Rye is brewed using a large percentage of Rye Malt to forgive the fresh Columbus hops. The end result grants you full absolution and our Rye-Wine Ale. Repent and enjoy!
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Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
4.05/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 oz bottle now called Repent (Rye IPA).
Pours dark copper colored; a bit hazy when the small amount of sediment from the bottom of the bottle is added.
Generous loads of spicy rye, sweet malts, and bitter hops mix together to create an excellent aroma with a flavor that is nearly as good.
Feel: medium body with light carbonation and partially hidden ABV.
May 20, 2019Pours dark copper colored; a bit hazy when the small amount of sediment from the bottom of the bottle is added.
Generous loads of spicy rye, sweet malts, and bitter hops mix together to create an excellent aroma with a flavor that is nearly as good.
Feel: medium body with light carbonation and partially hidden ABV.
Reviewed by Tone from Missouri
3.65/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a clear amber color. 1/4 inch head of an off-white color. Decent retention and decent lacing. Smells of slight rye, slight citrus hops, hint of sweet malt, and a hint of piney hops. Fits the style of an American IPA (mistakenly listed as a Barleywine). Mouth feel is smooth and clean, with a low carbonation level. There is a noticeable bitterness. Tastes of slight rye, slight citrus hops, hint of sweet malt, hint of alcohol, and a hint of piney hops. Overall, good blend, feel, pleasant bitterness, but aroma and appearance are lacking.
Jul 15, 2018Rated by dustin22martin from Missouri
3.17/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.17/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Why does this beer taste like marinara sauce?
Nov 04, 2017Reviewed by Suds from Missouri
3.98/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Clear chestnut in color with a huge, firm white head. The aroma is of malt, with a hint of rye. The taste has peppery hops and enough malty sweetness to provide some balance. Firm bitterness that starts in the midtaste and continues through the finish. Nice beer.
Mar 06, 2016Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
4.35/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.35/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Thanks to ryanfolty for dragging this across the Midwest to be delivered into my grabby, rye-stained hands. 22 oz. bottle split with my lovely wife…who puts up with my rye obsession, wryly.
You’d think I’d know how to pour by now, but no, I raise a good seven inches of foam while I’m not paying attention, a lot more foam than I’d expect from a barleywine. The beer looks like stout that somebody’s been spitting chaw into all night, dark, mucky red. The smell might be unique: spicy rye, active citrus, girdle of malt sweetness. Certainly interesting.
Repent Rye makes me want to bust out my confirmation – ah, stuff. Do they give you stuff for confirmation? A necktie, a robe? Or was it strictly spiritual? Guess I should have been paying attention. This is a rye abomination that could kill anyone allergic to the grain at sixteen paces. The rye does something odd: it runs the gamut from spicy to earthy (unless that’s the hops) when usually brews embrace one end of that spectrum or the other. Citrus & pine (middle children, no doubt) roar into the mid-palate to vie for attention, along with crumbling oak leaf & wood (though I’m sure there’s none here?). The finish is all rye, all day, all up & down. I could drink a gallon of this, slam down the growler, & ask for seconds. Bahtender!
If you’re going to make a rye beer, don’t fuck around with 6% or toss a few rye-like grains in so you can put that magical word on the label. Do this. Stick rye so deep in my throat I feel it in my perineum. This is wonderful, an excellent beer.
Apr 04, 2015You’d think I’d know how to pour by now, but no, I raise a good seven inches of foam while I’m not paying attention, a lot more foam than I’d expect from a barleywine. The beer looks like stout that somebody’s been spitting chaw into all night, dark, mucky red. The smell might be unique: spicy rye, active citrus, girdle of malt sweetness. Certainly interesting.
Repent Rye makes me want to bust out my confirmation – ah, stuff. Do they give you stuff for confirmation? A necktie, a robe? Or was it strictly spiritual? Guess I should have been paying attention. This is a rye abomination that could kill anyone allergic to the grain at sixteen paces. The rye does something odd: it runs the gamut from spicy to earthy (unless that’s the hops) when usually brews embrace one end of that spectrum or the other. Citrus & pine (middle children, no doubt) roar into the mid-palate to vie for attention, along with crumbling oak leaf & wood (though I’m sure there’s none here?). The finish is all rye, all day, all up & down. I could drink a gallon of this, slam down the growler, & ask for seconds. Bahtender!
If you’re going to make a rye beer, don’t fuck around with 6% or toss a few rye-like grains in so you can put that magical word on the label. Do this. Stick rye so deep in my throat I feel it in my perineum. This is wonderful, an excellent beer.
Rated by jewellrunner from Missouri
4.25/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Tastes great after a year of cellaring.
Oct 05, 2014Reviewed by barnzy78 from Illinois
3.31/5 rDev -13.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev -13.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
22oz bottle, no apparent freshness date
A 4.5 - huge beige head holds excellent retention atop a ruddy-brown colored ale
S 3.5 - sweet and malty with toffee, caramel, spicy rye bread, piny hops
T 3 - huge spicy rye notes are front and center with bready malt, toffee, caramel, pine, some mild fruity esters (mainly pear and fig) come through as it warms.
M 3.5 - full body, finishes semi-dry and semi-bitter
O 3.25 - the rye is potent for this self-declared rye-wine, but I'm just not crazy over its overall flavor profile. It's good, but probably better in small doses. Maybe an oak age might help to tame down the rye and add some different complexities to it. I won't buy this again, even though it was a good price ($4.99).
Sep 03, 2014A 4.5 - huge beige head holds excellent retention atop a ruddy-brown colored ale
S 3.5 - sweet and malty with toffee, caramel, spicy rye bread, piny hops
T 3 - huge spicy rye notes are front and center with bready malt, toffee, caramel, pine, some mild fruity esters (mainly pear and fig) come through as it warms.
M 3.5 - full body, finishes semi-dry and semi-bitter
O 3.25 - the rye is potent for this self-declared rye-wine, but I'm just not crazy over its overall flavor profile. It's good, but probably better in small doses. Maybe an oak age might help to tame down the rye and add some different complexities to it. I won't buy this again, even though it was a good price ($4.99).
Reviewed by russpowell from Arkansas
3.85/5 rDev +1%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +1%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours an effervescent crimson with 3 fingers of tan head. Crazy lacing & head retention
S: Copious amounts of dates & figs, a little bit of dark cherry & brown bread.
T: Follows the nose, a little bit of rye spicyness balancing the fruit out up front, herbal hops as well. A little bit of booze, figs & peppery rye, plus dryness as this warms & more leafy hops & a bit of toffee. Finishes cakey, with some dryness, faint pineapple notes, leafy hops, a little bit of Bartlett Pear & figs
MF: Medium bodied, firm carbonation, skews fruity, thickens up once warm, balances out fairly nicely
Sort of an odd duck, works as an English Barley Wine for the most part
Mar 27, 2014S: Copious amounts of dates & figs, a little bit of dark cherry & brown bread.
T: Follows the nose, a little bit of rye spicyness balancing the fruit out up front, herbal hops as well. A little bit of booze, figs & peppery rye, plus dryness as this warms & more leafy hops & a bit of toffee. Finishes cakey, with some dryness, faint pineapple notes, leafy hops, a little bit of Bartlett Pear & figs
MF: Medium bodied, firm carbonation, skews fruity, thickens up once warm, balances out fairly nicely
Sort of an odd duck, works as an English Barley Wine for the most part
Repent Rye from Cathedral Square Brewery
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
36 ratings
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