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Red Collar Brewing Co.
- From:
- Red Collar Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Rye Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 10.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 13, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 09, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Formerly Rye And Ginger Ale
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - another new, inventive pun for the name of a brew with rye in the malt bill. The biking theme was apparently inspired by Kamloops native and competitive mountain biker Graham Agassiz.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent eroded limestone cliff lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of earthy fresh ginger root, gritty and bready pale malt, a lesser spicy rye graininess, a hint of buttery crackers, and very tame leafy, weedy, and musty herbal green hop bitters. The taste is mildly zingy ground ginger, buttered white bread, rye loaf, a weak and indistinct orchard fruitiness, and more underwhelming earthy, weedy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its playful frothiness, the body a stoic middleweight, and mostly smooth, as neither the rye nor the ginger cause any real problems, but neither do they help. It finishes trending dry - ginger and rye, rye and ginger, all the way.
Overall, this is just an example of that old adage 'it is what it is' - it's rye and ginger, and not much else. Not a bad thing, but if you're looking for complexity, and, hey, maybe you shouldn't be, you'd be outta luck here. Ok, now that the equivocating is out of the way, Imma just gonna sit back and enjoy a beer version of what I always remember as being the 'belligerent mixed drink'.
Jul 13, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent eroded limestone cliff lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of earthy fresh ginger root, gritty and bready pale malt, a lesser spicy rye graininess, a hint of buttery crackers, and very tame leafy, weedy, and musty herbal green hop bitters. The taste is mildly zingy ground ginger, buttered white bread, rye loaf, a weak and indistinct orchard fruitiness, and more underwhelming earthy, weedy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its playful frothiness, the body a stoic middleweight, and mostly smooth, as neither the rye nor the ginger cause any real problems, but neither do they help. It finishes trending dry - ginger and rye, rye and ginger, all the way.
Overall, this is just an example of that old adage 'it is what it is' - it's rye and ginger, and not much else. Not a bad thing, but if you're looking for complexity, and, hey, maybe you shouldn't be, you'd be outta luck here. Ok, now that the equivocating is out of the way, Imma just gonna sit back and enjoy a beer version of what I always remember as being the 'belligerent mixed drink'.
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