Rye IPA
Doan's Craft Brewing Company

 

 

 

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver. First straight-up offering from this Lotus-land brewery for this reporter.

This beer appears a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and weakly foamy off-white head, which leaves some decent webbed lace around the glass as things quickly abate.

It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and doughy caramel malt, a lesser rye astringency, some candied tropical fruitiness, mild earthy yeasty notes, and further leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is much more rye-forward in its malt profile, with a big breakfast cereal presence, some generic stone fruitiness, middling yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and dead grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its plebeian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with very little else going on here. It finishes trending dry, the biscuity rye character predominating.

Overall, this is a pleasant enough version of the style, in that it makes me actually want more of it - not a simple task, believe you me. Nice and fruity and hoppy, all in near perfect balance. Worthy of checking out, and a promising first introduction to this outfit, as already noted!

 

 

 

Doan's Craft Brewing 'Rye IPA' @ 6.0% , first tasted on tap at HOPoxia'16 & a 650 ml bottle purchased for $8
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a cloudy orange/gold in the glass with a big fluffy white head leaving a large spotty lace along the sampler/pint
S-rye
T-crisp & clean rye IPA , spicey
MF-lots of carbonation , medium body
Ov-just an ok beer
prost LampertLand

 

Look: aged peach furrowed brow whose scalp retains a slight semblance of some scraggly white mop top:

Smell: a gorgeously tanned, caramelized mango spouting infrangible allegiance to organic candies. Otherworldly coffee, coated in seductive dusk-dust, complements the saccharine garden scent. The adhesive joining all of this uses scents reminiscent of elementary school glue. There is also a kingly aroma usually ascribed to IPAs of a higher potency.

Taste: A syrup incorporating gyrations of sweet edenic fruits presented to the imbiber through stencilled papaya sharpie patterns. Resinous hop bitterness is a distant thought murmuring in the aftertaste. Belching summons further fleeting Indonesian cloves.

Feel: Some strength is demanded of the tongue in cleaving through the body, a surprise considering the absence of any imperial crown attached to the naming.

Overall: An intensely charming paean to a deity whose capacity is greater than that of ordinary bottles. There is rain, joy, melancholy, and sweetness circulating through the veins of this brew.