Rusted Sickle Roggenbier
Apex Brewing

 

 

1L howler from Wine & Beyond Southside YEG.

This beer pours a clear, dark red-tinted amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent thickly webbed lace around the glass as it rather lazily beats it out of town.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a much lesser caramel sweetness, further acrid rye notes, a bit of indistinct plain orchard fruitiness, some black pepper spice, and a sense of leafy, weedy, and floral hoppiness unrequited. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lessened caramel sweetness, some astringent rye 'flavour', an edgy yeastiness, bland supportive fruity notes, and more understated herbal, grassy, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-assuring frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, with little else to say on the matter. It finishes trending dry, the rye cereal graininess taking full charge.

Overall, this is another agreeable enough Teutonic offering from this Yellowhead highway brewery who never really came across as German-Canadian in my initial experiences with them. At any rate, they have done well to sort of knock one out of the park, even if it is only for the 'local' hegemony of Alberta's largest liquor store chain.