Orange Cherry Rye Ale
Vancouver Island Brewing
- From:
- Vancouver Island Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 3.18%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 16, 2018
- Added:
- Feb 11, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - part of their 'Cocktail Series', this is apparently intended to emulate a Manhattan.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves a few instances of swooping architectural lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready caramel malt, a lesser rye graininess, faint maraschino cherries, a hint of bitter orange peel, some estery yeastiness, and very subtle earthy, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some spicy rye crackers, ethereal sweet cherries, still kind of testy orange rind, some muddled earthy spiciness, fading phenolic yeast, and more understated herbal, leafy, and gently lit-up floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a bit around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and mixed fruitiness the order of the lingering day.
Overall - yeah, I can't say that I've ever had the cocktail that 'inspired' this offering, but in throwing all of its typical constituent ingredients (I had to look them up) into the mix, I suppose I can say that they've succeeded, to a point. Not a badly-flavoured brew, but, like a stiff mixed drink, one that is probably better off just sitting back and enjoying, as opposed to what I'm doing right now.
Feb 16, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves a few instances of swooping architectural lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready caramel malt, a lesser rye graininess, faint maraschino cherries, a hint of bitter orange peel, some estery yeastiness, and very subtle earthy, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some spicy rye crackers, ethereal sweet cherries, still kind of testy orange rind, some muddled earthy spiciness, fading phenolic yeast, and more understated herbal, leafy, and gently lit-up floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a bit around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and mixed fruitiness the order of the lingering day.
Overall - yeah, I can't say that I've ever had the cocktail that 'inspired' this offering, but in throwing all of its typical constituent ingredients (I had to look them up) into the mix, I suppose I can say that they've succeeded, to a point. Not a badly-flavoured brew, but, like a stiff mixed drink, one that is probably better off just sitting back and enjoying, as opposed to what I'm doing right now.
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