Venom
Zero Issue Brewing
- From:
- Zero Issue Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Rye Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 0.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 28, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 01, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Black Rye IPA
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
1L howler from the new Wine and Beyond at Southgate in Edmonton. They claim that this was made 'exclusively' for them, but I see that it's available at numerous other locations around the province. Ha ha!
This beer pours a hazy, and very, very, very, dark brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent stringy webbed lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of somewhat meaty caramel malt, bruised pome fruit, a further spicy rye graininess, a whiff of gun-smoke, and some understated leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, rye whiskey without the heat, some tame orange and red grapefruit citrus rind, an ephemeral ashiness, mild earthy nuts, and more edgy floral, piney, and dead grassy 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its merely subservient frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of char maybe taking a minor tithe here. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt fending off the lingering forest floor detritus bitterness.
Overall, this is one of the better versions of both sub-styles (rye and CDA) of IPA that I have yet to come across. Not too blackened (leave that to Metallica), and still good and hoppy. Worthy of checking out, as it's clear that there are a number of places in which to do so - as it fucking should be.
Oct 01, 2017This beer pours a hazy, and very, very, very, dark brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent stringy webbed lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of somewhat meaty caramel malt, bruised pome fruit, a further spicy rye graininess, a whiff of gun-smoke, and some understated leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, rye whiskey without the heat, some tame orange and red grapefruit citrus rind, an ephemeral ashiness, mild earthy nuts, and more edgy floral, piney, and dead grassy 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its merely subservient frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of char maybe taking a minor tithe here. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt fending off the lingering forest floor detritus bitterness.
Overall, this is one of the better versions of both sub-styles (rye and CDA) of IPA that I have yet to come across. Not too blackened (leave that to Metallica), and still good and hoppy. Worthy of checking out, as it's clear that there are a number of places in which to do so - as it fucking should be.
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