Rustle
Tree House Brewing Company

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From:
Tree House Brewing Company
 
Massachusetts, United States
Style:
Festbier / Wiesnbier
Ranked #5
ABV:
5.8%
Score:
91
Ranked #8,226
Avg:
4.13 | pDev: 5.81%
Ratings:
49 | reviews: 17
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 07, 2025
Added:
Sep 28, 2021
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  0
Rustle is our Festbier. Crafted from Pilsner, Munich, Vienna, and Victory malts, it pours a brilliant golden color in the glass with an inviting and billowing head.

The use of hand-selected Hallertau Mittelfruh adds a noble hop texture to this malty and crisp delight. You will enjoy notes of bready malt, honeyed-sweetness, and straw as you work your way through the glass.
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Reviewed by MutuelsMark from Kentucky

4.1/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Mostly clear, golden in color. Small, white, semi-frothy head. No real lacing to speak of. Nose is clean, malty almost bready. Taste is bready with a slight zest taste. Mild bitterness.
Dec 07, 2025
 
Rated: 4.5 by cryptichead from Illinois

Nov 03, 2025
 
Rated: 4.19 by mattmarka1 from Minnesota

Nov 01, 2025
 
Rated: 4 by Fettpopps from Massachusetts

Oct 26, 2025
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Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas

4.25/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a can into a tree house tulip glass
Appearance – The beer pours a deep amber color with a puffy head of white foam. The head has a fantastic level of retension, fading slowly and leaving tons of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is bready and doughy with a nice hit of graininess and some caramel. Along with these smells comes a good showing of a pear smell as well as some notes of earthiness and a touch of floral hop.
Taste – The taste begins with a nice crisp bready and slightly doughy flavor paired with a good showing of caramel and a touch of toffee. There are also some light notes of earthy and herbal hops and some light notes of grain. As the taste advances the sweet initially gets stronger, while the grain gets lighter. Toward the end however, the sweet dries out a bit and a bit more earthiness joins in, and with a touch of hay, one is left with a rather nice crisp and clean lager taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body is light and thin with moderate and slightly more effervescent carbonation level.
Overall – A quite nice Festbier. A very easy and flavorful fall sipper.
Oct 06, 2025
 
Rated: 4.25 by Gkruszewski from New York

Oct 06, 2025
 
Rated: 4.52 by siege06nd from Virginia

Sep 20, 2025
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Reviewed by LifesAnesthesia from Virginia

4.39/5  rDev +6.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
L - Honey golden with a frothy off white head that dissipates somewhat quickly, leaving behind a thin cap
S - lots of bready malt, cracker, honey, caramel
T - follows the nose - bready malt up front and throughout, honey, caramel, straw. Slight earthy hops
F - medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Crisp
O - this is a really solid festbier. Honestly as good as most of the German's I've had.
Sep 20, 2025
 
Rated: 4.4 by Rhettroactive from Virginia

Sep 11, 2025
 
Rated: 4 by Stephenmheadley from Massachusetts

May 14, 2025
 
Rated: 4.25 by Ben1313 from New Hampshire

Sep 01, 2024
 
Rated: 4.33 by jcoleMA66 from Massachusetts

Oct 21, 2023
 
Rated: 4 by broadway848 from New York

Oct 09, 2023
 
Rated: 4.19 by MrDarcy from Arizona

Oct 07, 2023
 
Rated: 4.5 by pveilleux from Massachusetts

Apr 16, 2023
 
Rated: 4.23 by liquorpig from Massachusetts

Dec 04, 2022
 
Rated: 4.21 by benjaminsa from Vermont

Nov 27, 2022
 
Rated: 4.02 by crobinso from Colorado

Nov 06, 2022
 
Rated: 4.19 by alexsergio from New York

Nov 05, 2022
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.17/5  rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Clear gold, perhaps a little darker, with a tall off-white foam head of large fuzzy bubbles collapsing in airy pockets leaving cobweb lacing.

Lightly toasty, grainy, and corny malt is paired with a moderately potent herbal bitterness making for a palate cleansing dryness that nearly exhales a hint of West Coast IPA-like pine while remaining solidly in the festbier realm.

The medium body's crispness rounds out a little in the middle to a froth before coming to a bone dry finish.

A crisp crusher.
Oct 31, 2022