Black Rye India Pale Ale
Bridge Brewing Company
- From:
- Bridge Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Rye Beer
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 7.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 10, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 31, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.95/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - is this an American Black Ale, a Rye Ale, or a further combination of the both? Time to find out, I guess!
This beer pours a very dark, black-adjacent brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some melting snow rime lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of gritty, mildly meaty roasted caramel malt, wet ash, a faintly spicy rye graininess, damp, and only slightly dank pine resin, obscured citrus peel notes, and a hint of bittersweet chocolate. The taste is bready, doughy, and still fairly toasty caramel malt, more separate char, pine needles on an old forest floor, understated citrus pith, dry chocolate powder, muddled rye grain, and some languishing herbal, leafy, and weedy green hops.
The bubbles are decently active in their swirling, and not too prickly frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and rather smooth for the style (apparently 'de-husked dark malts' can have that effect), with a burgeoning (relative, still) creaminess. It finishes off-dry, more sweet than bitter, as the complex maltiness puts up the shields, the sort that the lingering hops can only harmlessly bounce off of.
As I feel that I should review and rate at least somewhat to style (irrespective of any biases I may possess), I gotta say, this is one of the better examples of an American Black Ale (yep, the rye isn't all that pronounced) that I've yet come across. Roasted, chocolaty, and equitably hoppy - worthy of checking out, no matter where you stand on the idea of overly parsing classification systems.
Oct 02, 2015This beer pours a very dark, black-adjacent brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some melting snow rime lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of gritty, mildly meaty roasted caramel malt, wet ash, a faintly spicy rye graininess, damp, and only slightly dank pine resin, obscured citrus peel notes, and a hint of bittersweet chocolate. The taste is bready, doughy, and still fairly toasty caramel malt, more separate char, pine needles on an old forest floor, understated citrus pith, dry chocolate powder, muddled rye grain, and some languishing herbal, leafy, and weedy green hops.
The bubbles are decently active in their swirling, and not too prickly frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and rather smooth for the style (apparently 'de-husked dark malts' can have that effect), with a burgeoning (relative, still) creaminess. It finishes off-dry, more sweet than bitter, as the complex maltiness puts up the shields, the sort that the lingering hops can only harmlessly bounce off of.
As I feel that I should review and rate at least somewhat to style (irrespective of any biases I may possess), I gotta say, this is one of the better examples of an American Black Ale (yep, the rye isn't all that pronounced) that I've yet come across. Roasted, chocolaty, and equitably hoppy - worthy of checking out, no matter where you stand on the idea of overly parsing classification systems.
Rated by Derek from Canada (BC)
3.37/5 rDev -12%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.37/5 rDev -12%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
It's alright, but the malts are a bit huddled and it could use more hops.
Feb 14, 2015
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