Rue’d Attitude
The Bruery

 

 

Had this last year over the 4th of July weekend. Pretty cool beer.

Pours dark brown and approaching black. Head popped up around 2/5" and lighter brown in color, but retention was not a strong suit of this beer. The aroma had a hefty amount of coffee to it. Bruery doesn't get acknowledged enough for how good their coffee choices are, this is another good example of that top notch coffee aroma that comes first. Roasted malt and bourbon notes after that, cherry is largely devoid in the nose.

Taste still pushes coffee at the forefront, but there is more going on here than in the nose. There is a dark fruit, dark cherry, dry and bark like bitterness to it that is tempered by the dark chocolate and bourbon notes. Cherry is plenty discernable at this stage of taste and mouth feel. Great mouth feel in terms of the ability to make a very strong beer plenty drinkable. The body isn't super thick and flabby, has that dry svelte aspect which is a nod to the right amount of vanilla. Quite enjoyable and expensive.

 

750ml bottle poured into a teku
Bottled 9/3/19

A- pours black in color with a two-finger creamy khaki head that has great retention and eventually leaves some nice lacing behind

S- aroma is dominated by coffee up front; herbal, earthy with some cracked pepper. Undertones of chocolate, caramel, anise, oaky bourbon, brown sugar and toffee. Just a trace of vanilla and cherry

T- bold mocha coffee and chocolate up front give notes of espresso, mocha cream, brown sugar, vanilla and heavy cream. Mid-palate continues the earthy coffee, with notes of anise, charred malt, wet oak and barrel juice. The finish brings out just a hint of cherry tartness before giving way to more earthy mocha coffee and bourbon on the linger

M- medium body with moderate carbonation leads to a creamy mouthfeel that continues into a silky, velvety and slightly warming finish, perfect mouthfeel

O- an outstanding porter with a perfect mouthfeel. Full of espresso, mocha, vanilla and just enough cherry to poke through, outstanding

 

 

 

 

2019 Vintage
12.6% ABV
Sampled in FW Tulip

Appearance: Very dark brown bordering on black with a modest-sized dark beige head that slowly faded. Good looking beer.

Smell: The coffee and tart cherries compete for star billing here. Mild Bourbon is also present in the nose.

Taste: Coffee and tart cherries feature just like the nose suggested. Mild Bourbon, roasted malt notes, and tannic oak notes also come through. The finish features the coffee and cherry notes along with tannic oak notes in the finish. Restrained alcohol presence for the ABV.

Mouth-feel: Medium bodied with a moderate level of carbonation. Spot on for the American Porter style category it's listed under.

Overall: Good beer. This beer is good but not how i remembered Rue d' Floyd. Still tasty.

Cousin brought this to Christmas. Damn, it’s good. Dark, dark, dark. Smell is really strong coffee with a slight cherry undertone. Taste is much more subdued than what I expected off the smell. Plenty of coffee on the taste, but a tart cherry works with it really well. Feel is thick and syrupy and big bodied, but not sticky or muddy. Just a freaking winner of a beer.

 

 

 

 

A: Poured into a snifter to a black beer topped by a dense and rocky three finger tan head which fades slowly to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing. I may have poured this one a little too aggressively
S: Smells of coffee and dark chocolate with some vanilla and cherries hiding in the background. Decent oak and bourbon influence as well with a little roasted malt to round things out.
T: Taste is a huge amount of coffee up front with some nice roasted malts and dark chocolate, vanilla, oak, caramel, and a little bit of cherry. On the swallow there's more coffee, charred wood, cherries, vanilla, dark chocolate, and some slight lingering bitterness.
M: This beer has a moderate body with a silky feel on the palate. Carbonation is on the low side of things but more than adequate for the style while the beer has a drying finish.
O: Overall this beer is very close to Rue d'Floyd. It's also a huge coffee bomb but it isn't quite to the same level. A very nice tribute though. Really great complexity with some awesome flavors that make this one a joy to drink. Well worth a try if you can get it.