Smoked Roggenbier
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Roggenbier
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 8.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 15, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 04, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.38/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle poured into tulip 28/11/15
A clear golden yellow with lots of bubbles but not much for head or lace
S caramel, some apple, bread, not a whole lot really, very tame
T OK now I'm getting a little smoke and spice I couldn't smell, smoked apple, still basic but at least there's something going on
M lighter side of medium, bubbles fluff it up and it quickly flattens out, weird sour bread finish
O pretty basic stuff, drinkable but nothing not a whole lot of smoke or rye and the nose is a little dead
Yet another ho hum brew fro Big Rock, they keep trying new styles I'll give them that but they never really impress me with any of them
Nov 29, 2015A clear golden yellow with lots of bubbles but not much for head or lace
S caramel, some apple, bread, not a whole lot really, very tame
T OK now I'm getting a little smoke and spice I couldn't smell, smoked apple, still basic but at least there's something going on
M lighter side of medium, bubbles fluff it up and it quickly flattens out, weird sour bread finish
O pretty basic stuff, drinkable but nothing not a whole lot of smoke or rye and the nose is a little dead
Yet another ho hum brew fro Big Rock, they keep trying new styles I'll give them that but they never really impress me with any of them
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.55/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.55/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A very "Big Rock" beer, by which I mean "enjoyable but unremarkable." Pours clear, not a lot of head. Smell s of Big Rock yeast, a bit of rye spice, ever-so-slight smoke. Drinks very clean, very malty and creamy, with not a lot of rye or smoke.
A strange beer--I *really* enjoyed it, and yet it doesn't really distinguish itself within the style: it's neither particularly smoky nor big on the rye spice. Just really refreshing, and rather light for an "autumn" beer of this sort. I'd happily drink this until the cows come home, just don't mistake it for an *actual* smoked beer or an actual roggenbier.
Oct 16, 2015A strange beer--I *really* enjoyed it, and yet it doesn't really distinguish itself within the style: it's neither particularly smoky nor big on the rye spice. Just really refreshing, and rather light for an "autumn" beer of this sort. I'd happily drink this until the cows come home, just don't mistake it for an *actual* smoked beer or an actual roggenbier.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.3/5 rDev -6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.3/5 rDev -6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
330ml bottle, part of the current Barn Burner mixed pack - the latest in their tinkering with heretofore exotic styles, it would appear.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy eggshell white head, which leaves some chunky snowmass lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready, slightly doughy caramel malt, a mildly spicy rye graininess, a surprising apple and pear fruitiness, subtle earthy yeast, and very ethereal hints of meaty smoke. The taste is more bready, grainy pale and caramel malt sweetness, a still prominent pome fruit character, a rye essence that seems rather neutered, sort of pithy yeast, and a smoky essence that is more a product of reading the label than anything actually tactile.
The carbonation is quite light and fluffy in its swirling frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing of note present here to make any sort of fuss about. It finishes off-dry, the fruitiness really starting to dominate, even though I finally get a fleeting sense of something smoky as things warm up a tad.
Like many things Big Rock, this is a watered-down, and hardly challenging example of two styles - roggenbier, and smoked beer. Neither the rye nor the purported smoke make anything other than a trivial appearance, which relegates this to more of a crappy pale ale designation, that is, if you were drinking it near a campfire, and attributed the character of the brew in your hand to the fire's ashiness.
Oct 04, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy eggshell white head, which leaves some chunky snowmass lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready, slightly doughy caramel malt, a mildly spicy rye graininess, a surprising apple and pear fruitiness, subtle earthy yeast, and very ethereal hints of meaty smoke. The taste is more bready, grainy pale and caramel malt sweetness, a still prominent pome fruit character, a rye essence that seems rather neutered, sort of pithy yeast, and a smoky essence that is more a product of reading the label than anything actually tactile.
The carbonation is quite light and fluffy in its swirling frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing of note present here to make any sort of fuss about. It finishes off-dry, the fruitiness really starting to dominate, even though I finally get a fleeting sense of something smoky as things warm up a tad.
Like many things Big Rock, this is a watered-down, and hardly challenging example of two styles - roggenbier, and smoked beer. Neither the rye nor the purported smoke make anything other than a trivial appearance, which relegates this to more of a crappy pale ale designation, that is, if you were drinking it near a campfire, and attributed the character of the brew in your hand to the fire's ashiness.
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