Ryes Against The Machine
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 6.68%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 20, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 30, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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A classic English brown with a spicy twist. This heavy hitter is malt focused and utilizes only the highest quality malts. Built upon English base malt, which gives a sweet biscuit flavour. This beer is accentuated with chocolate, caramel, roasted, and rye malt for a distinct spice that partners the sweetness.
IBU 12
IBU 12
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a howler purchased at Collective.
Appearance - Pours a copper reddish brown with two fingers of frothy tan head.
Smell - earthy, leafy, floral, and a hint of spicy hops, cocoa, dark fruits (plum, raisin, fig), hint of rye, hint of pumpernickel, caramel, bready malts and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, floral, and hint of spicy hops. The cocoa and dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig) come through next. The rye and pumpernickel notes are very mild in this one. The caramel, bready malts and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the malts and hops lingering. The rye and pumpernickel notes are barely there as the malts and caramel take dominance.
Overall - A sub-par rye beer; however if they were intending on brown rye ale then a respectable brown rye ale but the rye is lost. I wish the rye and pumpernickel took more of a role in this one.
Nov 20, 2022Appearance - Pours a copper reddish brown with two fingers of frothy tan head.
Smell - earthy, leafy, floral, and a hint of spicy hops, cocoa, dark fruits (plum, raisin, fig), hint of rye, hint of pumpernickel, caramel, bready malts and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, floral, and hint of spicy hops. The cocoa and dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig) come through next. The rye and pumpernickel notes are very mild in this one. The caramel, bready malts and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the malts and hops lingering. The rye and pumpernickel notes are barely there as the malts and caramel take dominance.
Overall - A sub-par rye beer; however if they were intending on brown rye ale then a respectable brown rye ale but the rye is lost. I wish the rye and pumpernickel took more of a role in this one.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
355ml can, so thoughtfully trucked up here to E-town by the brewery themselves! I have to say, I am sadly NOT pairing this offering with anything remotely resembling hard work. Oh well, maybe just chased with some Alberta rye whisky, then.
This beer pours a clear, very dark red-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of bleeding paint swath lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet caramel malt, a near equal to the task rye graininess, muddled earthy spice, muted banana and citrus fruity notes, and some rather tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy caramel malt, some fairly subtle rye breadiness, sedate yeast, a still understated and blended domestic fruit bowl thing, and some weak earthy, leafy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its plebeian frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising as things warm up a bit around here! It finishes off-dry, the mixed malts playing nice with each other, with little else to report.
Overall, I think that the marketing blurb sort of overstated the effect of the rye input in this brew - it's there, but the caramelized side still dominates. Easy to drink, in the end, and the only (first world) problem I have right now is the music pairing - Rage Against the Machine, or Welcome to the Machine? Duh, it's the latter.
Dec 13, 2016This beer pours a clear, very dark red-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of bleeding paint swath lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet caramel malt, a near equal to the task rye graininess, muddled earthy spice, muted banana and citrus fruity notes, and some rather tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy caramel malt, some fairly subtle rye breadiness, sedate yeast, a still understated and blended domestic fruit bowl thing, and some weak earthy, leafy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its plebeian frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising as things warm up a bit around here! It finishes off-dry, the mixed malts playing nice with each other, with little else to report.
Overall, I think that the marketing blurb sort of overstated the effect of the rye input in this brew - it's there, but the caramelized side still dominates. Easy to drink, in the end, and the only (first world) problem I have right now is the music pairing - Rage Against the Machine, or Welcome to the Machine? Duh, it's the latter.
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