Sunset Rye-PA
Chatty Monks Brewing
- From:
- Chatty Monks Brewing
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.27 | pDev: 0.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 14, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 04, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by The_Kriek_Freak from Greenland
4.28/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
This is a super tasty example of a flavorful and spicy rye IPA. Think of intense hop, yeast, and rye notes, combined with a rather thick mouthfeel. A very well crafted example of the rye IPA sub-style.
Dec 14, 2023
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.26/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Chatty Monks Brewing "Sunset Rye-PA"
16 fl. oz. can; production code is illegible
Notes via stream of consciousness: This is made with 100% Deer Creek malt and I'm all for supporting local ingredients. I've only brewed one beer with 100% Deer Creek but I toured their facility beforehand and I was impressed; I thought all of their malts were great. With that said, they don't produce any dark malts but this beer is a hazy deep amber which suggests that they've used a fair amount of their "Double Dutch" dark Munich malt. It's bready in the nose but the spiciness of the rye dominates. There's a little bit of a piney and citrusy hop note in the background as well. The taste reveals more of the sweetish and bready malt, and in this case it dominates, at least at the outset. The rye steps forward across the middle and then lingers in the finish. A moderate bitterness balances it, and along with the spiciness from the rye it's mostly dry in the finish. As for hops I'm not finding a whole lot but neither did I expect to. It's woody, piney, earthy, and lightly citrusy, floral, and herbal. I think they're perfectly balanced against the malt, adding in supporting character and depth. Too many more hops would have thrown it off, and in my opinion this is really more of a strong rye beer than an IPA but it carries the IPA tag so that should probably be how it's categorized. In the mouth it's medium-full in body, and gently crisp but then smooth with a fine-bubbled, seemingly natural, moderate to median carbonation level. The head held up quite nicely and halfway through I've got what looks like a waving flag of spotty rings over torn walls of lace across half of the glass. A friend turned me on to this, and perhaps I should have said upfront that this is not the first one that I've sampled; in fact it's the last of my stash and I'm looking forward to getting more. Rye beers can be difficult to pull off because you have to bring enough flavor in that you get that spiciness, and then you have to balance it. I think this one is perfect, and it might be the best rye beer that I've ever tasted.
Review #8,778
Nov 12, 202316 fl. oz. can; production code is illegible
Notes via stream of consciousness: This is made with 100% Deer Creek malt and I'm all for supporting local ingredients. I've only brewed one beer with 100% Deer Creek but I toured their facility beforehand and I was impressed; I thought all of their malts were great. With that said, they don't produce any dark malts but this beer is a hazy deep amber which suggests that they've used a fair amount of their "Double Dutch" dark Munich malt. It's bready in the nose but the spiciness of the rye dominates. There's a little bit of a piney and citrusy hop note in the background as well. The taste reveals more of the sweetish and bready malt, and in this case it dominates, at least at the outset. The rye steps forward across the middle and then lingers in the finish. A moderate bitterness balances it, and along with the spiciness from the rye it's mostly dry in the finish. As for hops I'm not finding a whole lot but neither did I expect to. It's woody, piney, earthy, and lightly citrusy, floral, and herbal. I think they're perfectly balanced against the malt, adding in supporting character and depth. Too many more hops would have thrown it off, and in my opinion this is really more of a strong rye beer than an IPA but it carries the IPA tag so that should probably be how it's categorized. In the mouth it's medium-full in body, and gently crisp but then smooth with a fine-bubbled, seemingly natural, moderate to median carbonation level. The head held up quite nicely and halfway through I've got what looks like a waving flag of spotty rings over torn walls of lace across half of the glass. A friend turned me on to this, and perhaps I should have said upfront that this is not the first one that I've sampled; in fact it's the last of my stash and I'm looking forward to getting more. Rye beers can be difficult to pull off because you have to bring enough flavor in that you get that spiciness, and then you have to balance it. I think this one is perfect, and it might be the best rye beer that I've ever tasted.
Review #8,778
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