Ontario Oak Aged Rye Ale
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Rye Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 1.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 23, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 03, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
330ml bottle, part of the Canada 150 variety pack from Big Rock that celebrates our nation's upcoming birthday via 6 brews that represent the diversity of said land. Haven't we already seen some rye-flecked, Trad-esque oak-aged offering from them before?
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy off-white head, which leaves some hanging limestone arch lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser cereal rye character, weak oaken staves (though heavy on the vanilla), a generic dark orchard fruitiness, and very plain earthy, weedy, and dead leafy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy rye malt, a now flip-flopped caramel sweetness, some light stone fruit esters, very understated oaken astringencies, and more way too gentle leafy, musty, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite meek in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a small airy creaminess popping its head up as things warm a smidge around here. It finishes well off-dry, the mixed malt essentially the only lingering game in town.
Overall, this comes across as yet another normal-ass brew from the actually good folks at Big Rock - the proclaimed rye whisky essence mostly fails to materialize, and thus we are left with some of the same ol', same ol'. Yup, a generic malty ale, ho-hum, next!
Jun 08, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy off-white head, which leaves some hanging limestone arch lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser cereal rye character, weak oaken staves (though heavy on the vanilla), a generic dark orchard fruitiness, and very plain earthy, weedy, and dead leafy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy rye malt, a now flip-flopped caramel sweetness, some light stone fruit esters, very understated oaken astringencies, and more way too gentle leafy, musty, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite meek in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a small airy creaminess popping its head up as things warm a smidge around here. It finishes well off-dry, the mixed malt essentially the only lingering game in town.
Overall, this comes across as yet another normal-ass brew from the actually good folks at Big Rock - the proclaimed rye whisky essence mostly fails to materialize, and thus we are left with some of the same ol', same ol'. Yup, a generic malty ale, ho-hum, next!
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